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In reply to the discussion: What do you think of this comment about current state of the country? [View all]LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)28. I think we're re-living the end of Edwardian Britain between the wars.
I think we're re-living the end of Edwardian Britain between the wars in so many ways.
A change will happen, and will happen at the expense of so many things we hold as "Americana", but it can done via the governmental mechanism (as done in Britain at the time, albeit messily) rather than through violence or revolution.
Financially, politically (projections of power), culturally and personally, our sites, our hopes and our expectations will have be set much lower than they have been since the post-war booms.
I believe we will readjust.
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What do you think of this comment about current state of the country? [View all]
dixiegrrrrl
Mar 2012
OP
It is a real possibility that a Rick Santorum-like character would rise as the leader out of
jtuck004
Mar 2012
#11
Unfortunately I agree with him. And it is not just how we are approaching the economics that is
jwirr
Mar 2012
#7
Ah, but you underestimate, I think the majority do recognize it's a facade. Revolution is in
mother earth
Mar 2012
#17
I think he's right. The evidence is everywhere. However, I do think it can be changed, although
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#13
Well, Occupy started a Global Movement. I can't say for sure, but I think this may be the first
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#21
Interesting, I never heard of it before, thanks for the link. Maybe Occupy could join them
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#38
Absolutely he's correct. We can't stay in the old paradigm. We have to progress into a new era,
mother earth
Mar 2012
#14
I think you are correct but only because we are not going to have a choice. There is no returning
jwirr
Mar 2012
#40
The handwriting on the wall is flashing in neon that our empire is collapsing.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2012
#29