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By Danny Schechter
Out with the old. I would say good riddance to 2011 even as I fear 2012 may be worse, given the financial trends, social chaos and political idiocy that we confront every day.
Every time, I believe it can’t get worse, it does.
It seems so clear that the political system is moribund and paralyzed and the economic system may be in worse shape.
A tiny sliver of the 1% may be in charge although not in control. Their own short-term greed makes it unlikely that they can stabilize the system or do any longer term planning. Their Titanic has hit its iceberg. Some new technologies may be keeping it afloat for now but for how long?
We lurch from crisis to crisis in an atmosphere of deep denial.
Obama clearly has no new ideas and the Republican candidates for the most part don’t know what an idea is, as they pander to a no-nothing base to prove that they can be as crass as they are.
Television dutifully reports all this as if we should take it seriously. No wonder only 7% of the people approve of their own money dominated Congress.
The Republicans can’t get any nastier with each other and now the Democrats are moving in the same direction with the announcement that Dennis Kucinich, whose been gerrymandered out of his district, is now—oh, no-- going after Progressive Marcy Kaptur’s seat.
As I think about the year ahead, I am reminded of what I said at this time of year last year about what I called the year of the “Crumble.”
Sound familiar? It’s not a long distance from “crumble” to collapse as Democracy gives way to plutocracy.
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