The most remarkable
thing about civil unrest is that there hasn't been more of it.
Politicians
are making a hash of this country – and much of the rest of the
civilized world. We know it. They know it. They know we know it.
But we don't feel we can do anything much to stop them.
That right
there is the pre-condition for civil unrest – when people are
frustrated and politicians are nervous.
Worse, that
was how things stood before last fall's crash. Before pols on both
left and right launched the biggest mass transfer of wealth in history – transferring
our wealth (what we had left of it!) to their friends on Wall Street
and in the banking industry. In other words, that's how things were
before things got bad!
Now everybo
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