[DarkWaters]

On those aspects I will agree with you. However, I worry with all of the cleansing that will be necessary, the possibility of our country going down and not coming back grows ever larger when factors like Russia, China, DPRK, South America(falling into the hands of Marxist one country at a time), resources of Africa continue to fall into unfriendly hands, etc. continue to happen. Our economic difficulty to say the least will be taken advantaged of. That is why I see that as a bad sign of things yet to come, not the fact the crooks are getting their just deserts, which is more than justified. But I guess that is the price to be paid for becoming a decadent, narsistic, and nihilistic society (everyone pays the price).

[arete]

possibility of our country going down and not coming back

We will be much stronger as a people and country once we rid ourselves of the parasites. If we wait for them to suck us dry and destroy our will and character as well as steal the national wealth, then the future will indeed be dim.

Richard W.

[Pearls Before Swine]

There's the socio-political aspect and there's the economic aspect. On the economic side, a Russian economist named Kondratiev (sp?) spoke of long, 55 to 60 year cycles in capitalist economies. A lot of people thought we were due for a depression followed by war in the 80's based on his theories. Fortunately, that didn't happen. Some said the power of the government to manipulate the economy has become so great that the cycle was stretched. Maybe...

On the social/political side, there's a problem. The last time around it was totalitarianism through Communism and Fascism. This time around it is Islamism and the leftovers of Marxism. If there isn't a threat, there isn't a problem.

I'm not necessarily a big cycle fan, but if you want to buy the poetry of the cycle mode of thought, you'd look for an extended economic slow-down world wide (note that Japan's stock market hit a 19 year low yesterday) lasting another couple of years, followed by political turbulence on a very large scale.

My happy thoughts for the day.