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Elder Statesman
I have no data to back it up, no crazed conspiracy theorist who visited me in the middle of the night and left me the "evidence" for safe-keeping, and not even my secret-handshake club has given me any insight.
However:
I have a strong belief that the real-estate "crisis" and bubble was pre-planned to suck the wealth out of the middle-class, therefore destroying it. That can be the subject of another thread.
The point:
I think the same type of thing is happening now to the Democracy/Republic system of government here in the USA. The "debt ceiling" debate will deadlock, there will be further economic consistences, a depression, and then the American electorate itself will decide that a "strong President" will be needed to "get stuff done", and there will be legislation or even a Constitutional Amendment that will de-empower the Congress ("Those crooks who can't get anything through, they deadlock and debate and have paralyzed the government") and the Supreme Court ("They are legislating from the Bench, and that's NOT FAIR!!!!"), and leave us with...mmm...a Despot or Tyrant.
Of course, this "strong President" will be elected. As long as that election goes the way that the "powers that be" want it to go (George "W" and the Hanging Chad's anyone?).
My Fellow Americans, WAKE UP. I don't care if you are conservative or liberal, it is not the political agendas that are at stake. It is the structure of our government that is going to be pulled out from under us. I'll further predict that it will be done through a Popular Election.
I'm not terribly fond of the Star Wars prequels, but a quote from Star Wars III maybe hauntingly prophetic.
"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause."
However:
I have a strong belief that the real-estate "crisis" and bubble was pre-planned to suck the wealth out of the middle-class, therefore destroying it. That can be the subject of another thread.
The point:
I think the same type of thing is happening now to the Democracy/Republic system of government here in the USA. The "debt ceiling" debate will deadlock, there will be further economic consistences, a depression, and then the American electorate itself will decide that a "strong President" will be needed to "get stuff done", and there will be legislation or even a Constitutional Amendment that will de-empower the Congress ("Those crooks who can't get anything through, they deadlock and debate and have paralyzed the government") and the Supreme Court ("They are legislating from the Bench, and that's NOT FAIR!!!!"), and leave us with...mmm...a Despot or Tyrant.
Of course, this "strong President" will be elected. As long as that election goes the way that the "powers that be" want it to go (George "W" and the Hanging Chad's anyone?).
My Fellow Americans, WAKE UP. I don't care if you are conservative or liberal, it is not the political agendas that are at stake. It is the structure of our government that is going to be pulled out from under us. I'll further predict that it will be done through a Popular Election.
I'm not terribly fond of the Star Wars prequels, but a quote from Star Wars III maybe hauntingly prophetic.
"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause."