[StealthObserver]

From my observations over 53 years I have to agree with Eugene above. America has always been like this. So have its people. Years ago Chicago Newspaper man Mike Royko summed up this country nicely with the phrase “where’s mine?”

This place always has been an oligarchy and so it will remain unless things get really ugly and bloody. Yet for all the revolution bluster running through countless websites and Tea Party bitch fests about changing things, nothing is going to change. Oh sure, we’re going to see the gap between the rich and poor grow. It’s even going to grow between the destitute poor and the just barely hanging on. And still, I will bet that nothing changes as the just barely hanging on will still look down on the destitute poor as the problem instead of looking up toward their owners as the problem. The destitute poor keep the barely hanging on in absolute fear and gratitute that they are not in their ranks…yet. This mentality of kissing the butt of the wealthy and powerful is completely and totally seared into the American mentality. Moreso everyday in this so-called “high tech” crap pile. Steinbeck’s observation for decades ago about poor American’s viewing themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires is even more precise today.

In ten more years things will be crappier for most Americans in general and we’ll have multiple panhandlers on every street corner and we’ll all still be here talking about the problems and what to do about it and amazed at how clueless the lumpen idiot American public is and wondering how much more they will take, and they will take a lot more from there. Such is the nature of this contrived reality and the owners know it and conduct their affairs accordingly.

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