Too much politics and not enough government.
Million dollars is louder than a million voices, and politicians are being held accountable- to the people who pay for their campaigns. Keeping our head down and maintaining employment isn't enough in our day and it wasn't enough during anyone's day who posts here, clearly, since it is the cumulative inaction of an entire population for the last 50 years that led us here. In that same 50 years overwhelming efforts succeeded in lowering the standard of education and self respect of the average human in America. We don't even have the option of keeping our head down and maintaining employment. Maybe this is the collapse of American capitalism- or the inevitable result of promoting individualism above other ideologies...it makes me laugh that in a capitalist system the people most often placed with blame for the current situation are those with the least capital- without ever considering that the drastic economic disparity in this country is a symptom of its flaws not a reflection of a lazy population. Our wealthy population in America is immature and sociopathic and don't give a fuck about you unless you have more money than they do- and they want you to feel the same about the people around you. And with ever more industrial processes becoming automated- the need for specialized employees is lessening- the need for worker bees is diminishing and the utopian dream of electric cars and fancy Nikola Tesla/Wilhelm Reich inspired technology is right around the corner once all the fat pathetic non producing wastes of energy die of general malnutrition/disease associated with 25 years of the standard American diet. Cancer is now the leading cause of child death in America, in case any here missed it in the news recently. I don't know about apocalypse, but plenty of genocidal processes seem well underway to me.
Without going on a rant: Balance the budget by only spending what the gov't takes in. Quit living above our means. Quit being the world policeman. Quit pumping 85 billion a month into the economy. Hold our gov't accountable by reducing the huge amounts of waste. Make the politicians work for the people not the corporations. The people should be able to inspect what the expect and hold law makers, rather elected or appointed, accountable.
That sounds good but how?
If this government stops acting as world policeman it loses it token to take the massive liberties it has over the last decade- all the way-... Then some of our politicians will have to start facing war crimes tribunals (rightfully so in my mind), so they're gonna keep fighting for that token. Seems to me industrial war and household spending are the only things the American economy has going now, we have been so far out-sourced. No one outside the country cares about American sports - people don't trust American gold, or beef....they dig American porn though, and the general willingness to degrade oneself for an increasingly low amount of money you encounter here.
Basically we are Disneyland with heavy soy and corn production to feed the human and undulate cattle populous.. The corporations run the show- not the government- and people act like they know this yet still call for petitions to the government- which are inherently useless when governments are beholden to corporations.. Didn't anyone catch Jimmy Carter in the news saying there is no functioning democracy in America? I wish I knew what the answer was.. I know not shopping at Walmart is part of it though.
Revolutions only happen when rich people get angry too- and it's never been so easy to be wealthy as it is right now in America. The wealthiest folks in Manhattan (who also make up the a number of the wealthiest Americans) are taxed lower rates than the volunteer fire fighters there.
So food is toxic, water is toxic, air is toxic- simple household items are toxic. Education is taxed outside the realm of possibility for most of the population- as is health care... Entertainments boast only redundant themes and industry all but disappears, right in line with calls for tougher gun possession legislation, and the introduction of biometric ID technology innocuously introduced into the single most popular personal consumer device worldwide ((you really have to give Apple credit for creating the single largest name to fingerprint database in existence, without any nefarious legislation or any real dissent in general)).
... Seems like all the hallmarks of a population control program to me. I'll repeat- Cancer is the leading cause of death of those who die before 18 in America- and of those who survive, 50% will at least develop cancer and undergo treatment in their lifetime. Genocide is just the thing this country needs to trim the fat, worked 500 years ago why not give it another round? But this time it will happen with no fight or false promises of diplomacy. Just an ever increasing amount of sick people paying their last dollars to pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
