2012: The End of the World As We Know It

[WillowTree]

Like a replicating amoeba, America is pulling apart into two separate cultures. One is strongly committed to the birth of an even more robust, pro-growth, entrepreneurial capitalism. The other thinks Che Guevara and Karl Marx had important social insights relevant to America today, and wants to follow the path of Juan Peron 's Argentina, if not Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. This is the stark choice facing the American people in 2012.

This is also why the vast majority of the American heartland feels more cultural affinity with the people of New Zealand and Australia than with the people of San Francisco and Seattle, at least as reflected by the majority of those two benighted cities. But the replicating amoeba analogy is not apt, because amoebas split into two equal new entities. What the American people are about to demonstrate in 2012 is that the heartland's vision of a booming economy restoring America's traditional world-leading prosperity and superpower might is shared by far more citizens than you might think, and that the long outdated socialist vision of the "progressive" American Left, for whom that traditional American prosperity and superpower status is a moral embarrassment, is fading into oblivion.






The American Spectator : 2012: The End of the World As We Know It

 

[Rambunctious]

Like a replicating amoeba, America is pulling apart into two separate cultures. One is strongly committed to the birth of an even more robust, pro-growth, entrepreneurial capitalism. The other thinks Che Guevara and Karl Marx had important social insights relevant to America today, and wants to follow the path of Juan Peron 's Argentina, if not Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. This is the stark choice facing the American people in 2012.

This is also why the vast majority of the American heartland feels more cultural affinity with the people of New Zealand and Australia than with the people of San Francisco and Seattle, at least as reflected by the majority of those two benighted cities. But the replicating amoeba analogy is not apt, because amoebas split into two equal new entities. What the American people are about to demonstrate in 2012 is that the heartland's vision of a booming economy restoring America's traditional world-leading prosperity and superpower might is shared by far more citizens than you might think, and that the long outdated socialist vision of the "progressive" American Left, for whom that traditional American prosperity and superpower status is a moral embarrassment, is fading into oblivion.






The American Spectator : 2012: The End of the World As We Know It

Well said,..............

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

And I feel fine.....................................................

 

[oldsalt]

moochelle baccchmannn and failin' palin??

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So when Woody Allen releases his movies in 2013, tickets sold in Taxes and Nebraska will count as International, amiright?

 

[Dr.Drock]

Lol that was pure gold, here's a summary for those who don't want to read it all.

1.) Voting Republican will not only save America, it will save the planet.

2.) Fox News is the only large media outlet worthy of trust.

3.) The author has a good spell check, with all the drugs he took I still didn't notice any errors.


I remember this same jibberish about how Republicans were going to save america in 2001, then from 2001-2007 they found a way to be even more liberal than the last administration before them.

Same will happen, of course Obama is more liberal and worse than Bush, but we'll either elect a republican in 2012 or I think more likely 2016 and that president will be even more liberal and thus worse than Obama, just like we saw in 2001.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

moochelle baccchmannn and failin' palin??

Are you fucking retarded or is this just your mind-numbed response to everything?

Good Lord....

 

[shintao]

Like a replicating amoeba, America is pulling apart into two separate cultures. One is strongly committed to the birth of an even more robust, pro-growth, entrepreneurial capitalism. The other thinks Che Guevara and Karl Marx had important social insights relevant to America today, and wants to follow the path of Juan Peron 's Argentina, if not Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. This is the stark choice facing the American people in 2012.

This is also why the vast majority of the American heartland feels more cultural affinity with the people of New Zealand and Australia than with the people of San Francisco and Seattle, at least as reflected by the majority of those two benighted cities. But the replicating amoeba analogy is not apt, because amoebas split into two equal new entities. What the American people are about to demonstrate in 2012 is that the heartland's vision of a booming economy restoring America's traditional world-leading prosperity and superpower might is shared by far more citizens than you might think, and that the long outdated socialist vision of the "progressive" American Left, for whom that traditional American prosperity and superpower status is a moral embarrassment, is fading into oblivion.






The American Spectator : 2012: The End of the World As We Know It

Seems we hear that BS every election cycle, then in the aftermath it is fuck all the people but the top 10, and pray to corporations. Eventually you will need a new message for the socialists who are in the majority.

 

[Moonglow]

 

[Mr Natural]

Yeah, like the other side is going to make everything all better.

 

[Hope_and_change]

There is no liberty without freedom, there is no freedom without self-defense

 

[Moonglow]

There is no liberty without freedom, there is no freedom without self-defense

I have been beating my pecker to stop him from attacking women.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Like a replicating amoeba, America is pulling apart into two separate cultures. One is strongly committed to the birth of an even more robust, pro-growth, entrepreneurial capitalism. The other thinks Che Guevara and Karl Marx had important social insights relevant to America today, and wants to follow the path of Juan Peron 's Argentina, if not Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. This is the stark choice facing the American people in 2012.

This is also why the vast majority of the American heartland feels more cultural affinity with the people of New Zealand and Australia than with the people of San Francisco and Seattle, at least as reflected by the majority of those two benighted cities. But the replicating amoeba analogy is not apt, because amoebas split into two equal new entities. What the American people are about to demonstrate in 2012 is that the heartland's vision of a booming economy restoring America's traditional world-leading prosperity and superpower might is shared by far more citizens than you might think, and that the long outdated socialist vision of the "progressive" American Left, for whom that traditional American prosperity and superpower status is a moral embarrassment, is fading into oblivion.






The American Spectator : 2012: The End of the World As We Know It

Well there goes that myth...

...you can pack two pounds of shit in a one pound bag.

 

[Conservative]

Seems we hear that BS every election cycle, then in the aftermath it is fuck all the people but the top 10, and pray to corporations. Eventually you will need a new message for the socialists who are in the majority.

It never ceases to amaze me that liberals, to a person, continually vilify corporations... making them out to be evil incarnate.

They apparently have no idea what corporations have done for this country.

First transcontinental railroad... private corporation
First commercial telephone system... private corporation
Pharmacuetical companies that developed drugs for major diseases... private corporation
Automobile industry... private corporation
First accident insurance... private corproation
First health insurance... private corporation

The list goes on... and on... and on. Ad infinitum.

Record corproate donations to charity continued in 2009, even though lower than 2007 and 2008 because of the economy...
Wal-Mart tops list of charitable cash contributors, AT&T No. 2 - USATODAY.com

WalMart $288 million
AT&T $239 million
B of A $209 million
Wells Fargo $202 million
Exxon Mobil $187 million


Individuals who run corporations are a huge benefit to this country, and donate immense sums of personal wealth to charities...

Bill and Melinda Gates
Paul Newman
Warren Buffet
George Soros
again, the list goes on... and on... and on.

This country would not exist, if it were not for corporations.

 

[Mustang]

Like a replicating amoeba, America is pulling apart into two separate cultures. One is strongly committed to the birth of an even more robust, pro-growth, entrepreneurial capitalism. The other thinks Che Guevara and Karl Marx had important social insights relevant to America today, and wants to follow the path of Juan Peron 's Argentina, if not Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. This is the stark choice facing the American people in 2012.

This is also why the vast majority of the American heartland feels more cultural affinity with the people of New Zealand and Australia than with the people of San Francisco and Seattle, at least as reflected by the majority of those two benighted cities. But the replicating amoeba analogy is not apt, because amoebas split into two equal new entities. What the American people are about to demonstrate in 2012 is that the heartland's vision of a booming economy restoring America's traditional world-leading prosperity and superpower might is shared by far more citizens than you might think, and that the long outdated socialist vision of the "progressive" American Left, for whom that traditional American prosperity and superpower status is a moral embarrassment, is fading into oblivion.






The American Spectator : 2012: The End of the World As We Know It

Conservative writers' penchant for hyperbole should never be doubted. Having an ability to accurately reflect on events in a manner that elucidates rather than obfuscates is another matter altogether.

While conservatives accuse President Obama of destroying the economy in what can only be destribed as a rhetorical flourish which is meant to scare people who faithfully listen to talk radio, conservatives actually seem intent on REALLY damaging/destroying the American economy through their action or inaction.

"With the clock ticking, we doubt there is time to reach agreement on a comprehensive plan," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics. "Instead, we expect a smaller scale plan to be passed that cuts $1.5 trillion from discretionary spending over the next decade. ... But it may not be enough to satisfy the rating agencies. The federal government is therefore still likely to lose its AAA rating within the next three months."

Debt downgrade looms larger for US - Business - Eye on the Economy - msnbc.com

Maybe if Americans knew that conservatives' hopeful model for America was the economy (and gov't) of Chile under Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990, they might wake up to the shock of that figurative splash of "the cold water of reality" on their collective faces.

Chile in the 70's had everything conservatives love. The dictatorship aspect of the gov't meant that no compromises would ever have to be made. I think it's painfully clear by now (since everyone can see it) that American conservatives don't want to compromise even if and when not doing so could very well sink our country into a deeper, more immediate morass of economic woe.

Yeah, that "economic experiment" was a humdinger of a reality check for average workers, their families, and poor people, even as corporations did really well.

Chile was ruled by a military dictatorship headed by Augusto Pinochet from 1973 when Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup d'etat until 1990 when the Chilean transition to democracy begun. The authoritarian military government was characterized by systematic suppression of political parties and the persecution of dissidents to an extent that was unprecedented in the history of Chile.

After the military took over the government in 1973, a period of dramatic economic changes began. The Chilean economy was still faltering in the months following the coup. As the military junta itself was not particularly skilled in remedying the persistent economic difficulties, it appointed a group of Chilean economists who had been educated in the United States at the University of Chicago. Given financial and ideological support from Pinochet, the U.S., and international financial institutions, the Chicago Boys advocated laissez-faire, free-market, neoliberal, and fiscally conservative policies...

From an economic point of view, the era can be divided into two periods. The first, from 1973 to 1982, corresponds to the period when most of the reforms were implemented. The period ended with the international debt crisis and the collapse of the Chilean economy. At that point, unemployment was extremely high, above 20 percent, and a large proportion of the banking sector had become bankrupt.

The economic policies espoused by the Chicago Boys and implemented by the junta initially caused several economic indicators to decline for Chile's lower classes.[11] Between 1970 and 1989 , there were large cuts to incomes and social services. Wages decreased by 8%.[12] Family allowances in 1989 were 28% of what they had been in 1970 and the budgets for education, health and housing had dropped by over 20% on average.[12][13] The massive increases in military spending and cuts in funding to public services coincided with falling wages and steady rises in unemployment, which averaged 26% during the worldwide economic slump of 1982–1985 [14] and eventually peaked at 30%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_government_of_Chile_(1973–1990)