I have and although it has pushed the envelope to the ridiculous, we’re not that far removed from the plot.

Within many of my posts to this site over time, I’ve referenced this grade ‘B” or lower movie. It’s so lame that it’s fasinating and somehow to astute intellects as yours, et. al. we can relate, relative to our current national crisis…no?

My thoughts are that we are doomed and the outcome will be the absolute and total destruction of the world’s financial paradigm. I can’t say that it will occur within this current round of financial angst, but it will assuredly occur in time… : |

Carl Nemo **==

All of this “financial” stuff on their television doesn’t pertain to them, besides they don’t understand all of those big, boring words the supermodel-look-alike newscasters say anyway. (Not that the newscaster does either).

As long as the masses are comfortable things are great.

Pertaining to the article topic, voters mostly blame the republicans because the TV told them to…not because the voters have anything more than the memory of a goldfish, or the comparable IQ of a chimp.

Has anyone seen the movie “Idiocracy?”
Not that I’m into movies (seen one seen ‘em all, same plot) but this one pretty much sums it up.

We have been out-bred by morons, who continue to proudly embrace their stupidity.

“Voting the bastards out” only works when the other option isn’t a bastard as well. Right?
The choice between twp (or 5) bastards is still? Yep, a bastard, so there’s NO way to vote them out apparently.

Make sure you and yours have plenty of the basics and that you can defend those basics, because things just might go ugly.

God Bless.

Carl Nemo **==

I also bumped into a PBS program about the move of religion into politics. It started in the 50s with Eisenhower and grew with Rev. Billy Graham, then the recruiting of Jerry Falwell.

Adding the words under God to the pledge of allegiance and then all the successive presidents after that had some version of religion as a mandatory part of their image and PR.

Ike was baptized as a Presbyterian as an adult after some conversations about if he didn’t mind and how about this one?

So much to learn and who could ever hope to learn it all.

He ran as a 3rd party candidate, I believe it was 1912. He finished second and maybe that’s the only time anyone has. He was a progressive with a platform for things like Social Security and health care.

Then there was another election where a 3rd party guy whose name I already forgot campaigned from prison where he was serving 10 years for being an anti war activist. He got some respect from his opponent that was elected and had the remainder of his sentence commuted. Debs?

Are there any new ideas or just the passage of time?

On the other hand, President Obama apparently welcomes this “crisis” and will address it just as he did the “healthcare crisis.” That is, throw of his mask of the campaign and reveal himself to be an aggressive compromiser, making butterknife thrusts at his opponents (which includes just about anyone who doesn’t comprehend how blessed the U.S. is with having such a brilliant eunuch “leading” the nation. And I don’t believe anything he, or congressional Democrats say either.

The reason we all still post here is because we care; we care about this ship of state that approaches rocky shoals while petulant brats fight over who gets to control the tiller. We care because no matter whether we agree or not on any range of subjects, we all understand the needless sadness of watching a vessel that has sailed on for over 200 years being so badly abused.

The greatest danger to this republic is when the cynicism of the masses equals that of the smug sons of bitches running the show. THAT will signal the collapse of a polictial and social compact that exists ONLY with a viable middle class.