Originally posted by magicmushroom
Real, What in your opinion is the likely/possible scenario of events within the US over the next several months.
okay - over the last few days since this so called "financial crisis" broke open things are moving fast - congress is not united on the proposed
"bail out" which is looking more and more like the biggest rip off since Federal Reserve took over our currency last century....
There are some extremely ugly rumors floating around about possible "disappearances" of "red listed" people to start in October..this comes from
Steven Quayle who I don't give much credence to BUT...its worth pondering - IF the economy tanks completely, and IF the government cannot afford to
pay its bills and goes belly up, as I said elsewhere on another thread things could go south very quickly and the fed is aware....notice how the
pundits in the media are not really talking about how this current financial dilemma may pan out for the average person in the street...
Right now the media is talking about the "taxpayer" and their "pensions" and their savings and so forth - no one is talking about the worst case
scenario and how that will look...
On the left - you have entrenched dedicated revolutionary activists whose numbers are swelling as we speak...this always happens in tense political
and economic times...and then the numbers drop as normalcy returns - If you chart the Bolshevik revolution you can see a similar pattern - this
current crisis has more potential for explosive changes than any I've seen in my life time including the civil rights movement which was the engine
of the left in the 60's...
Center left: the more moderate but equally dedicated organizers of the women's movement, enviormentalists, social change activists, an almost endless
assortment of folks with a cause -
Add to the mix millions of extremely hardworking immigrants from countries that are no strangers to unstable governments, harsh economics, and who
proved they could make their voices heard by pouring out into the streets across the nation a few years ago ( and on very short notice) by the
hundreds of thousands to protest the policies of the Bush administration...
Now add to the mix the blue collar labor, constitutionalists, the local militia groups, and last but not least the newly disenfranchised middle class
whose money and homes are going up in smoke...
And finally you have the intellectuals, educators, social workers, doctors lawyers and so forth - people who traditionally have a foot in both worlds
- that the of educated elite but with a view of themselves as spokespersons and servants of the social contract - when they start feeling the squeeze
they generally come out of their ivory towers to stir the pot...
And then of course we have the elections coming up: I believe the establishment and many others from the above list will cling to this process like a
life raft in a hurricane...the election will not stave off the inevitable however and come February the tale will be told - perhaps sooner...
then there is the international scene - right now the world is kind of holding its breath to see if the other shoe is gonna drop - America's
competitors will surely use this crisis to better their position in the geopolitical circus maximus - anything could tip the scales at any
moment...
We are not quite in free fall yet...but it certainly feels close....