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From Bad to Worse

Jul 26, 2014
Everything is going to become unimaginably worse and never get better again. –Kurt Vonnegut (1970)

ISIS; MH17; Boko Haram; 56,000 unaccompanied Central American children crossing our border. Everything is becoming unimaginably worse since my last posting on St. Paddy’s Day.

And little is being done about any of it. It is as if the civilized world has become exhausted by the enormities of our uncivilized brethren.

At home, the Dow tops 17,000 and everything is hunky-dory for the one percent. On Democracy Now, Israel is slaughtering Arabs again and Canadians are delivering water to thirsty Detroiters. And DetroitWaterProject.org wants you to pay the bill of some of the 13,000 Detroiters who have had their water turned off for not paying their bill. Incredible!

The virulence of the Obama haters, which has paralyzed our government for over six years, will only get worse if Hillary Clinton is elected in 2016. From the vantage point of today, that seems the most hopeful scenario one can imagine, as horrible as I contend it will be, with more horrible ones becoming as likely very soon: a Republican takeover of the Senate this fall, the death or retirement of Ruth Ginsburg, a Republican takeover of the White House in 2017.

Economic recovery? There is no economic recovery while millions are unemployed or underemployed, or are seeing the buying power of their paychecks shrinking. And—surprise!—that includes most of us.

How can one live in this world? Where are the Mahatma Gandhis and Martin Luther Kings who can lead us out of this spiraling descent and back toward the mountaintop? They are nowhere. It is up to us. We MUST organize a third party and it must bring together the vast number of unhappy Americans who are tired of endless war, tired of huge deficits, tired of a bloated do-nothing government of over-privileged nincompoops, tired of the corporatocracy, and ready, once and for all, to forge a new government, of the people, by the people, and for the people, before we all perish from this beleaguered and crippled earth.
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