Posted on 10/27/2009 9:12:51 PM PDT by blam
Social Upheaval, How Close Are We?
Politics / Social Issues
Oct 24, 2009 - 02:33 AM
By: Michael_T_Bucci
Many authors who have contributed to The Market Oracle have expressed concern - some overtly and some in passing - about the possibility of social upheavals in the US caused by economic dislocations and what impact these events would have on the markets.
How close are we?
An excellent synopsis by Mr Andre Damon of the current status of economic conditions extant in the US and the world on the eve of the G20 conference contains a prescient conclusion: "These different factors set the stage for the inevitable eruption of open social conflict." Having written elsewhere this same conclusion and finding it raised by political writers both on the Left and Right using identical economic and social data and yardsticks, I firmly believe that open conflict MAY BE UPON US and needs only a small (or large, I believe) catalyst to erupt. Hopefully, this won't occur.
Regrettably, the American far-right has hijacked both the minds of workers who would otherwise galvanize behind self-defensive and pro-social agendas, and of Republican moderates and centrists; while the Democrats, Progressives and Left-leaners remain mesmerized and paralyzed in a residual stupor of Obamania (frozen in denial).
President Barrack Obama serves the purpose (knowingly or unknowingly) of neutralizing the center- to left-coalitions whereby the Bush agenda would and did continue without dissent; his administration, however, now is being drowned by assaults from the far-right (paraphrasing Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit's comments about the NPD) who are "daring to do things that endanger our democracy".
Many of these agenda-setters (along with gunners at Obama rallies) are seeking majority rule in 2010 when they should be sought for aiding and abetting insurrection and endangering the life of a President.
Republican moderates and centrists did not stop this momentum, but instead allowed extremists to control their party and vie for future control of America in what seems a "by any means possible" manner. These are critical times for this Democracy.
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Speaking as someone from the outside looking in, it seems to me that the United States is rapidly becoming the Disunited States. The last time the nation was this divided was in the 1850’s, and look how that turned out.
Do you have a reading comprehension problem? Re-read the post. Go to jail for effing what? For moving outside the US and making our vacation home our permanent home? For moving out of a Communist country? Scratching my head, thinking you are delusional and way to ready to accept and live with it. I WILL NOT. I have options and I will take advantage of them.
I think you’re right. None of the “Wolverines” here on FR will do jack when the New Order is complete, because no one is willing to do what it takes to stop it. Standing up to the New Order in any meaningful way means getting wacoed — and no one here on FR has the guts to take it as far as the Branch Davidians did.
My strategy now is to stay alive until the system collapses on its own — and it will. Even the Soviet Union eventually caved. I intend to build my family into a fortress of Christianity and Reason and outlast the bastards. When it all comes crashing down I — or my descendants — will emerge from the rubble and play their parts in the great Reconstruction of the West.
bttt
The auther moves the debate ever so closer. I will give him the doubt and assume he is a dumbass...
Soungs like a plan.
Watch yer six.
He completely left out the take over of the democrat
party by Communists....
OK, but you first.
typos suck...
Naturally, it’s the “Far Right’s” fault for not drying up and blowing away.
You got that right.
where...
I'm also in IT.
Our country has become Windows Vista, which is everything you just described! LOL
Wanna see the stats? Lemmme know.
Who is this author?
What is “The Market Oracle”? (presumably the author considers himself the oracle?)
Why is this even posted on FR? Why spread his commie drivel?
the silly-a$% leftys are just beginning to figure out the implications for them of a “French Revolution” scenario..and the fact that THEY aren’t armed.
Just released today by Forbes. DFW, Austin and LA area all lumped in close proximity in this study. Not much difference at all.
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