Economy
In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Thursday, 19 January 2012 [View all]bread_and_roses
(6,335 posts)I know this much: the "1%" and their almost there wannabees (next few %s) have their ghoul grip on almost all the wealth and are determined to get the rest of it. Our bought and sold politicians serve them, and them only, and our police & military are deployed by said utterly corrupt politicians to guard the Oligarch interests. We peons are to be just that - peons/serfs/low-wage slaves/etc. The commons is to be entirely gutted, we are to be left to die if we're sick, to sink into abject poverty once we fall out of the workforce from age or illness, and our children are to be educated only to do their serf-ish duty.
Most of "the left" is fixated on maintaining their own comfy nests by tinkering techno-fixes designed to return us to the days when most people could get by and poverty was concentrated in the backwoods and city slums where most of us could ignore it. The Oligarchs are having none of even that - they want it all, and think they can get it.
The combination of vampire predation and the complicit "left" will eventually unleash the demons that lurk far back in our reptile brains - racism, fanaticism, power-hunger - opening the door for demagoguery, and then all bets are off.
Meanwhile, the seas are literally dying, along with the rest of the planet's life-sustaining systems, raising the spectre of mass famine on the near horizon.
All the rest is detail - the hows and whens. Interesting, sometimes even ironically amusing if one can detach oneself from the likely outcomes and watch it like a movie.