OT: Countdown: Three Weeks to Chaos

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Had trouble making that link clickable, sorry. But copy/paste does work.

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Obama may turn out to have a good legacy after all, but it won’t be the one his supporters hoped he would have.

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Obama may turn out to have a good legacy after all, but it won’t be the one his supporters hoped he would have.

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Obama may turn out to have a good legacy after all, but it won’t be the one his supporters hoped he would have.

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Obama may turn out to have a good legacy after all, but it won’t be the one his supporters hoped he would have.

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Obama may turn out to have a good legacy after all, but it won’t be the one his supporters hoped he would have.

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[quote=KSMountain]

If we keep up with the negative posts, pretty soon Jimmy Carter is gonna hear about it, he’s gonna break out the cardigan, and he’s gonna start talking about “national malaise”.

Please – don’t let it get that far.[/quote]

How the Relentless Promotion of Positive
Thinking Has Undermined America
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/143187/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_the_relentless_promotion_of_positive_thinking_has_undermined_america
Positive thinking is different, she says, from being cheerful or good-natured — it’s believing that the world is shaped by our wants and desires and that by focusing on the good, the bad ceases to exist.

Ehrenreich believes this has permeated our culture and that the refusal to acknowledge that bad things could happen is in some way responsible for the current financial crisis.

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[quote=KSMountain]

If we keep up with the negative posts, pretty soon Jimmy Carter is gonna hear about it, he’s gonna break out the cardigan, and he’s gonna start talking about “national malaise”.

Please – don’t let it get that far.[/quote]

How the Relentless Promotion of Positive
Thinking Has Undermined America
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/143187/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_the_relentless_promotion_of_positive_thinking_has_undermined_america
Positive thinking is different, she says, from being cheerful or good-natured — it’s believing that the world is shaped by our wants and desires and that by focusing on the good, the bad ceases to exist.

Ehrenreich believes this has permeated our culture and that the refusal to acknowledge that bad things could happen is in some way responsible for the current financial crisis.

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[quote=KSMountain]

If we keep up with the negative posts, pretty soon Jimmy Carter is gonna hear about it, he’s gonna break out the cardigan, and he’s gonna start talking about “national malaise”.

Please – don’t let it get that far.[/quote]

How the Relentless Promotion of Positive
Thinking Has Undermined America
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/143187/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_the_relentless_promotion_of_positive_thinking_has_undermined_america
Positive thinking is different, she says, from being cheerful or good-natured — it’s believing that the world is shaped by our wants and desires and that by focusing on the good, the bad ceases to exist.

Ehrenreich believes this has permeated our culture and that the refusal to acknowledge that bad things could happen is in some way responsible for the current financial crisis.

[Arraya]

[quote=KSMountain]

If we keep up with the negative posts, pretty soon Jimmy Carter is gonna hear about it, he’s gonna break out the cardigan, and he’s gonna start talking about “national malaise”.

Please – don’t let it get that far.[/quote]

How the Relentless Promotion of Positive
Thinking Has Undermined America
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/143187/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_the_relentless_promotion_of_positive_thinking_has_undermined_america
Positive thinking is different, she says, from being cheerful or good-natured — it’s believing that the world is shaped by our wants and desires and that by focusing on the good, the bad ceases to exist.

Ehrenreich believes this has permeated our culture and that the refusal to acknowledge that bad things could happen is in some way responsible for the current financial crisis.

[Arraya]

[quote=KSMountain]

If we keep up with the negative posts, pretty soon Jimmy Carter is gonna hear about it, he’s gonna break out the cardigan, and he’s gonna start talking about “national malaise”.

Please – don’t let it get that far.[/quote]

How the Relentless Promotion of Positive
Thinking Has Undermined America
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/143187/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_the_relentless_promotion_of_positive_thinking_has_undermined_america
Positive thinking is different, she says, from being cheerful or good-natured — it’s believing that the world is shaped by our wants and desires and that by focusing on the good, the bad ceases to exist.

Ehrenreich believes this has permeated our culture and that the refusal to acknowledge that bad things could happen is in some way responsible for the current financial crisis.

[KSMountain]

I read the Ehrenreich link – I actually don’t agree and further don’t think it’s useful for predicting the future of the U.S.

Merely thinking positive thoughts may not be sufficient, but it is more likely to lead to good results than rampant negativity.

Think about when the U.S. went down to build the Panama Canal after the French gave up. Someone with the attitude “this obviously can’t be done, it’s too hard, and ‘bad things could happen'” isn’t going to get the job done. They’ve failed before they even started.

Certainly it was a very daunting task, and yet once we set our mind to it, applied technology (and competition), things started proceeding very rapidly.

During WWII, Eisenhower said (paraphrasing) “I do more for the war effort by just walking around with a smile and saying things are going well than almost anything else I could do”. Seems to have worked out pretty well for him.

Think about CEO’s of companies. The good ones are relentlessly optimistic, even when it is patently obvious things are bad. It can actually be annoying. But they have to do that. Think of the impact on the morale of their company (and the then resultant outcome) if they acted the other way.

There’s an old saying that if you bet against America you will lose. Now perhaps the doom and gloomers are right and the “proverb”, while correct so many times in the past, no longer applies (and never will again). For some reason “it’s different this time”. Yeah. Good luck with that bet.

[KSMountain]

I read the Ehrenreich link – I actually don’t agree and further don’t think it’s useful for predicting the future of the U.S.

Merely thinking positive thoughts may not be sufficient, but it is more likely to lead to good results than rampant negativity.

Think about when the U.S. went down to build the Panama Canal after the French gave up. Someone with the attitude “this obviously can’t be done, it’s too hard, and ‘bad things could happen'” isn’t going to get the job done. They’ve failed before they even started.

Certainly it was a very daunting task, and yet once we set our mind to it, applied technology (and competition), things started proceeding very rapidly.

During WWII, Eisenhower said (paraphrasing) “I do more for the war effort by just walking around with a smile and saying things are going well than almost anything else I could do”. Seems to have worked out pretty well for him.

Think about CEO’s of companies. The good ones are relentlessly optimistic, even when it is patently obvious things are bad. It can actually be annoying. But they have to do that. Think of the impact on the morale of their company (and the then resultant outcome) if they acted the other way.

There’s an old saying that if you bet against America you will lose. Now perhaps the doom and gloomers are right and the “proverb”, while correct so many times in the past, no longer applies (and never will again). For some reason “it’s different this time”. Yeah. Good luck with that bet.

[KSMountain]

I read the Ehrenreich link – I actually don’t agree and further don’t think it’s useful for predicting the future of the U.S.

Merely thinking positive thoughts may not be sufficient, but it is more likely to lead to good results than rampant negativity.

Think about when the U.S. went down to build the Panama Canal after the French gave up. Someone with the attitude “this obviously can’t be done, it’s too hard, and ‘bad things could happen'” isn’t going to get the job done. They’ve failed before they even started.

Certainly it was a very daunting task, and yet once we set our mind to it, applied technology (and competition), things started proceeding very rapidly.

During WWII, Eisenhower said (paraphrasing) “I do more for the war effort by just walking around with a smile and saying things are going well than almost anything else I could do”. Seems to have worked out pretty well for him.

Think about CEO’s of companies. The good ones are relentlessly optimistic, even when it is patently obvious things are bad. It can actually be annoying. But they have to do that. Think of the impact on the morale of their company (and the then resultant outcome) if they acted the other way.

There’s an old saying that if you bet against America you will lose. Now perhaps the doom and gloomers are right and the “proverb”, while correct so many times in the past, no longer applies (and never will again). For some reason “it’s different this time”. Yeah. Good luck with that bet.

[KSMountain]

I read the Ehrenreich link – I actually don’t agree and further don’t think it’s useful for predicting the future of the U.S.

Merely thinking positive thoughts may not be sufficient, but it is more likely to lead to good results than rampant negativity.

Think about when the U.S. went down to build the Panama Canal after the French gave up. Someone with the attitude “this obviously can’t be done, it’s too hard, and ‘bad things could happen'” isn’t going to get the job done. They’ve failed before they even started.

Certainly it was a very daunting task, and yet once we set our mind to it, applied technology (and competition), things started proceeding very rapidly.

During WWII, Eisenhower said (paraphrasing) “I do more for the war effort by just walking around with a smile and saying things are going well than almost anything else I could do”. Seems to have worked out pretty well for him.

Think about CEO’s of companies. The good ones are relentlessly optimistic, even when it is patently obvious things are bad. It can actually be annoying. But they have to do that. Think of the impact on the morale of their company (and the then resultant outcome) if they acted the other way.

There’s an old saying that if you bet against America you will lose. Now perhaps the doom and gloomers are right and the “proverb”, while correct so many times in the past, no longer applies (and never will again). For some reason “it’s different this time”. Yeah. Good luck with that bet.

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