Harry Potter mania is in full effect this week, with the arrival of the blockbuster series' final cinematic installment. As the ubiquitous movie posters say, "It All Ends." Here in the Muggle world, a similar dark sense of finality hangs over the swirling debt ceiling debate, with its looming August 2 deadline. In that drama, DC's lead actors have been slipping in and out of character. President Obama -- who has announced his interest in starring in a sequel of his own -- signaled his willingness to accept draconian spending cuts, while Mitch McConnell couched his Snape-like approach in "crassly political terms," flatly declaring: "I refuse to help Barack Obama get reelected." Meanwhile, with the emphasis on debt reduction, another week passed without the stars of the show tackling the jobs crisis -- or, as it's known in Washington, "That Which Shall Not Be Prioritized."
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Third World America remains the unmistakable objective of our national leaders - and the globalist elite they work for. That goes for both parties. Left vs. right can now be seen as a subterfuge, a divide-and-distract ploy. The real battle is globalism vs. nationalism and only the globalists have shown up.
Know your enemy. Say no to globalism and the liquidation of America.
The Debt Ceiling Crisis is bogus.
After WW II, the Debt was 120% of GDP, much higher than is is today as percent of GDP.
Republicans refusing to raise the debt ceiling is political extortion bordering on treason.
Republicans had several years under Bush to implement smaller government, they didn't.
The deficit could be easily solved with a reasonable combination of tax hikes and budget cuts.
Our energy infrastructure could be rebuilt with an infrastructure bank funded with energy taxes.
We do not have a Budget Crisis, we have a leadership crisis.
Gorbachev spoke about "glasnost" (openness) and "perestroika" (restructuring). Obama spoke about "transparency" and "transformation" (hope you can believe in). Gorbachev presided over endless exhaustive imperial war in Afghanistan. Obama is doing exactly the same thing. Gorbachev awakened and implicitly encouraged internal forces of social rebellion and centrifugal secessionist political forces of imperial disintegration.
Obama is presiding over the distinctive accelerated dismantling of the social fabric built over the past century for the protection, prosperity and wellbeing of the middleworkingclass majority of Americans. Raising social security age from 65 to 67 is tip of the iceberg most visible step in that direction. Other increasingly more draconian measures would follow, ... until the people would sporadically rise up and revolt. Anecdotal talk of secessionist sentiments are sporadically springing up in Texas and California. As the national debt and budget spiral out of control, Washington leadership splinters into incoherent factions, national consensus evaporates, and Washington political process becomes unabashedly visibly open to the highest money bidder, ... people can see where all this is going --- towards disappearance of legitimacy, disintegration of central power and authority.
Similar steps were prelude and set the stage to the demise and disintegration of the USSR Soviet Empire in 1991.
They had rotten leaders. We have rotten leaders.
Second,unlike The US,USSR was a communist dictatorship,without free elections and basic civil liberties.
And thirdly,Obama is not some despot to be blamed for everything that goes wrong,whatever happens,WE as a people are to blame!
From a strictly historical perspective, whether elections are proforma exercise like in the Soviet Union, or proforma democratic shell-game flip-flop between two factions of a corporatist duopoly party differs mostly in superficial labeling. The relentless increasing corporate takeover of the political process over the past 3 decades (accelerated over this past decade) demonstrates the futility of a superficial dysfunctional democratic electoral and legislative processes that are essentially mired in money power. The cabal of a small number of corporate trillionaires exercise effective control behind curtains. Whether they back a leader that's eloquent rhetorical orator or incoherent cowboy, the effective "on the ground" policies on major issues remain essentially unaltered in their direction and contents. Most thinking Americans in the past few years have begun to understand and acknowledge that reality in American politics.