The disconnect is complete.

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This is from an article by Hunter over at Dkos. The whole thing is worth reading.


All of this wraps back to my larger point. At the beginning I mentioned a conviction that we could very well be headed into a full Depression, one bad enough to deserve a capital letter at the beginning of the word, one that is given its own name in future history books. I think it possible—no, probable, sadly—because of the enormous disconnect between political rhetoric and public opinion, at this point. Congress recently garnered its worst approval ratings ever. There is demonstrable public appetite, in similar polls, for jobs over deficit-busting and for raising high-end taxes over cutting benefits. None of this makes a damn bit of difference, however, because the Republican side of government is in absolute opposition to all of it. They have embraced a nihilistic vision of government, in which the only allowed action is to reduce or cripple it, and the only allowable fiscal policy is to give still more money to the very people the public demonstrators are so angry at.

The disconnect is complete. There is no possibility of government taking fiscal action to stave off continued joblessness: A desperately weak economy is considered the new normal. The disconnect between the welfare of large corporations, whose profits continue unimpeded, and the wider American economy continues to grow. There is a very good chance, on the election of the next president (and do not count me among the better fans of this president, who has staffed his policy offices with many figures of the same mold as those who devastated the economy in the last ten years and have apparently learned precious little since) that we will enter into a government dedicated towards the exacerbation of that great divide between the wealthy and everyone else, and especially of corporate power over public power. None of this will do a damn thing, if the financial sector cannot somehow miraculously right itself, but it would certainly enhance both the anger on the streets and the probability of a continued dim economy

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/17/1026712/-Occupy-Wall-Street:-The-banks,-the-government-and-the mob?showAll=yes&via=blog_1