Class and family in the US and A.

[meus_ovatio]

I've been musing about something. Beware, for I have mused and you are now subject to its consequences! Something came up with got me thinking about family and how class continuity can effect politics. For instance, anecdote-wise, about 3/4ths of those I know are worse off than their parents than their parents were at their age. The rest are either

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[allhatnocattle]

Wall Streeters and gov't had to have seen the writing on the wall long before the housing mortgage bubble collapsed in 2008. I mean they saw worthless deeds, bundled them and resold them as a brand new investment product. They compounded the debt and then recompounded it again. They knew this couldn't go on for infinity. They might not have known how it would burst, or how they would get out of it, but they knew damned well...

And so we also see the writing on the wall of the not-so-secret energy crisis. We see the writing on the wall where this corporate state lobbies the government of USA, mimicking Italian Fascism. We generally know the challenges we're going to be facing in the future. We just don't know the details of how, when and who it's going to effect. Of course preparations for the inevitable are being made!

Some people think OccupyWallStreet is over and I keep warning them not to be so naive. Occupy might be over in that form, but the unrest, the anger, the protest will continue because the people don't like what's going on. The CEO's paid big bucks for closing factories and moving to China. Wall Street telling government how to run the country. And unintelligent Richie Rich's running for President.

Of course the government is getting prepped for the revolution. They know it's coming. And they don't care.

[peristaltor]

I worry that rather than not caring, they can't see an alternative.

If you saw a slow tsunami on its way and noted that the village had neither the appropriate high ground or the ability to build more lifeboats, what would you do as a leader? It appears they're arming the lifeboats to prevent them from being swamped by panicked swimmers later in the game.