Posted on 10/27/2009 9:12:51 PM PDT by blam
Social Upheaval, How Close Are We?
Politics / Social Issues
Oct 24, 2009 - 02:33 AM
By: Michael_T_Bucci
Many authors who have contributed to The Market Oracle have expressed concern - some overtly and some in passing - about the possibility of social upheavals in the US caused by economic dislocations and what impact these events would have on the markets.
How close are we?
An excellent synopsis by Mr Andre Damon of the current status of economic conditions extant in the US and the world on the eve of the G20 conference contains a prescient conclusion: "These different factors set the stage for the inevitable eruption of open social conflict." Having written elsewhere this same conclusion and finding it raised by political writers both on the Left and Right using identical economic and social data and yardsticks, I firmly believe that open conflict MAY BE UPON US and needs only a small (or large, I believe) catalyst to erupt. Hopefully, this won't occur.
Regrettably, the American far-right has hijacked both the minds of workers who would otherwise galvanize behind self-defensive and pro-social agendas, and of Republican moderates and centrists; while the Democrats, Progressives and Left-leaners remain mesmerized and paralyzed in a residual stupor of Obamania (frozen in denial).
President Barrack Obama serves the purpose (knowingly or unknowingly) of neutralizing the center- to left-coalitions whereby the Bush agenda would and did continue without dissent; his administration, however, now is being drowned by assaults from the far-right (paraphrasing Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit's comments about the NPD) who are "daring to do things that endanger our democracy".
Many of these agenda-setters (along with gunners at Obama rallies) are seeking majority rule in 2010 when they should be sought for aiding and abetting insurrection and endangering the life of a President.
Republican moderates and centrists did not stop this momentum, but instead allowed extremists to control their party and vie for future control of America in what seems a "by any means possible" manner. These are critical times for this Democracy.
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check it out
Urban Shield, One of the Biggest Domestic Terrorism Drills in the Country
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372340/posts
Liar, liar, pants on fire just doesn’t seem adequate for his nonsense.
‘These different factors set the stage for ‘
What factors?
And what a load of bs this article is.
there needs to be an epic washout before any progress can be made in setting this warped age in order.
I think it's a done deal.
Why do you think you can't buy ammo?
This is one reason I support an Atlas Shrugged strike over revolution. The former makes it so the producers survive while at the same time denying the parasites a justification to engage even more force against us and a scapegoat to blame their own actions on.
PROJECTION. The American LEFT is going to be the problem. It is the SELF-PERCEIVED HAVE NOTS which will start the violence ... ya know ... the Islamofascists, the Communists, the Socialists, and the general Looters. The 2nd Amendment is the only thing stopping these one world order CLOWNS.
One of several instances of ignorance by the author in this article.
Where is the BARF alert on this one!
When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you’ll have to answer to
Oh, Guns of Brixton
The problem with this guy is that he’s bought into all the leftist propaganda about conservatives in the USA.
Oh, it’s bullcrap, but when was the last time you think he ever spent an evening chatting up politics with American conservatives?
He only knows what he’s been told.
I know what I see, though. There isn’t a group anywhere else on the planet that will do more to defend the United States against fascism.
Part of me thinks we are in need of a good ‘reset’. During the past few decades our country has veered so far off course, I’m not sure it can be set right.
Another part of me believes that if we can get the right people in office who will lead and educate the public, our country as we know it might yet be saved.
I’m skeptical the latter, but we should at least try to save what our founders created, and what many great people gave their lives to protect and defend.
Just another piece in the bigger puzzle and more reason for sheep to believe “Urban Shield” type activity has a real need behind it.
A closer look at a technical society in meltdown would be, at least somewhat, the old CCCP.
>>>Given this charged atmosphere of anger, hate and potential violence that has infected too many Americans against Government, the Federal Reserve, Democrats, fictitiously labeled “Socialists” and social welfare programs, we are at risk of experiencing a controlled, scripted and programmed “Revolution” - not by the Left, but by the Right.<<<
This comment probably dates me, but it reminds of me how me and my roommates used to discuss politics in the dorms back in the 1970s, fueled by passion, good weed, and a lack of knowledge.
I support an Atlas Shrugged strike, too. They can take everything from me except my will to be productive. Call if the Cloward-Piven strategy in reverse. The government needs to confiscate productive people’s wealth; what if we just decided to stop being productive?
The mass strike help bring down communist Poland, too.
As things get worse, I’ll hunker down and stop buying, stop producing, and if I can help it, dissolve my wealth in such a way as to prevent the government or anyone from using it. At that point I’ll be “inside” the system set up by the left of “the needy,” and then I can start acting like a good little termite and erode the structure slowly until the rot causes the whole edifice to fall apart.
At that point, I’ll still have the values and foresight which made me productive in the first place, and there’s always a construction boom after a calamity. Like Rahm Emmanuel said, don’t let a crisis go to waste.
Constipated Commonists Claiming (to be) Progressives
We just have to declare "amnesty for illegals" to be our Fort Sumter. I don't mind a fairly contested 2010 election, but if they try to stand on the scales using the illegals, then there's nothing left for them to take.
Some days... I feel like I’m already about half way through the process you described!!!
Comrade, you dis the Rodina at your own peril.
The Narodno-Patrioticheskiy Soyuz will come looking for you.....
(Pretty funny actually - thanks)
what we may need is a modern day equivalent of a true peasants with pitchforks rebellion, march on Washington and force these fools out, if need be ala’ Caecescu..
all designed with us in mind
I've been to the gatherings and have seen these extremists with my own two eyes and they are a scary lot!
Grannies, soccor moms, retired workers that many of probably vote democrat. I've seen veterans and entire families, even YOUNG CHILDREN with scary signs!
Yep, the extremists are taking over. What are we going to do about it? I'm more than a little nervous.
It will happen but we won’t do it. After the next election that the Dems lose by a large margine, they will be the ones starting violence and urging each other to do the “patriotic” thing (French yute rioting).
I’m not ready for it - can you hold it off for a couple of years? :)
Seriously, I’m “prepping”, but have a late start.
This is why they see us as a threat!
What happens when the food deliveries stop to the cities?
That’s not the way to do it.
The way to do it is to have your state declare all federal laws null and void within the state,
then hunker down and “prepare to repel boarders”.
They all go feral.
And the rich libs in the cities will see what they’ve been promoting and protecting.
No such event will ever happen, you need to stop watching movies. Government health care will pass, cap and trade will pass, we will simply become a socialist nation without even the “mere” whimper some talk about. No ones going to do anything because legislation was passed, even if it means we’re socialists. That is the reality of the situation.
There will be lots of food to be had in the suburbs for a short time.
We never thought we would have a Marxist in the Whitehouse. It was unthinkable after all of the blood we had shed in the 20th century fighting for freedom.
In 72 hours, they start to burn and the refugees will be looking for you.
Allow me to Re-PHRASE ONE OF THEIR LINES...
When OBAMA should be impeached for aiding and abetting TERRORISTS
If you think about it, that's what the author is afraid of - that we'll stand up to (his, their) fascism.
If the ammo and gun sales are any indicator, a lot of people think this is inevitable. I assume everyone hopes we never have to fight our fellow Americans but the cultural divide is so great, the hatred so intense, is it inevitable?
Fools like the author of this barf strewn diatribe still deny there is Socialism afoot in America. Marxism is but a dirty word.
Dirty because it speaks truth of the situtation.
Speak for yourself. You sound resigned to that fact. I will never live under a Pinko government. NEVER. I will leave if people decide to just accept it and we can’t have honest elections to remove them. You enjoy being one of their serfs.
Yes. It’s inevitable at this point. Things are so out of whack the built-in checks and balances no longer work.
“You sound resigned to that fact. I will never live under a Pinko government. NEVER. I will leave if people decide to just accept it and we can’t have honest elections to remove them.”
I think more and more citizens of this country are willing to accept a certain amount of socialism. Probably the next generation won’t be as passionate as we are now the same way the majority doesn’t want to abolish Medicare or SS.
Social Upheaval, How Close Are We?
Already happening at a low level:
1) Mexicans driving out blacks from the LA hood
2) Blacks effectively governing inner cities by using racial and class warfare statements—see Baltimore mayor issue
3) Low intensity drug wars in many urban areas slowly spreading into the suburbs
4) Kidnappings occurring in Phoenix
5) Pittsburgh demonstrations last month aimed at capitalism
6) Attempted fire bombing of GOP convention last year by a nutjob in Austin who was turn in by one of his own.
7) Black panthers blocking poll access in Philly
8) Prop 8 ‘demonstrations’ aimed at Mormons and Christians across California with some property damage
9) Gun sales thru the roof for protection
10) a white house administration that barely hides its content at middle America
....we are already in a civil conflict, just how bloody remains to be seen.
How close are we? Just look out your window!
“Given this charged atmosphere of anger, hate and potential violence that has infected too many Americans against Government, the Federal Reserve, Democrats, fictitiously labeled “Socialists” and social welfare programs, we are at risk of experiencing a controlled, scripted and programmed “Revolution” - not by the Left, but by the Right.”
I guess Mr. Pucci Bucci likes the Black Panthers and ACORN involved with elections. (oh, how blinded you are Pucci Bucci.) And the brilliant Mr. Pucci Bucci has no problem with the “Capitalist” Government taking over 20% of the US economy as it secretly writes the 1,000+ page bill...oh please, Mr. Pucci Bucci, tell me you were drunk when you wrote this drivel.
Words to the editors of “Market Oracle” - you allowed this infantile nonsense to be printed? This reflects quite poorly on your judgment and I will remember this trite the next time I read anything published by you.
The link below is the antidote to this blathering fool.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371265/posts
This little sh*t needs to learn that the Left has been doing exactly this since the 1960s. Read Alinsky.
Remember: they have cars too.
That’s my favorite solution.
The you will simply go to jail, most likely alone ... I’m not trying to be a dufus, it’s just reality. Life is short on this planet in it’s current form, but life is eternal, if the US is stupid enough to go socialist then it simply will. I have my eyes on the eternal prize, and that isn’t the US ...
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