Consulting The Crystal Ball

Good link. Sounds plausible. In the US these days there's a palpable sense of drift and stagnation. The pope of hope, the chairman of change, the mocha messiah, President Obummer presides in an atmosphere of inertia, trivia, lack of focus, lack of commitment, lack of purpose. His job is to look grave and sombre while the empire burns. If he could play the fiddle (like Nero), he would. The empire is ending with a whimper. Maybe it's for the best.

If only 15 years remain, the odds of frittering them all away still remain high. Congress and the president are now in gridlock; the American system is flooded with corporate money meant to jam up the works; and there is little suggestion that any issues of significance, including our wars, our bloated national security state, our starved education system, and our antiquated energy supplies, will be addressed with sufficient seriousness to assure the sort of soft landing that might maximize our country's role and prosperity in a changing world.
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