TIRED of INEQUALITY? Get used to it. Things look like they're only gonna get worse.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

65. I think that is exactly what will happen

but its going to take 20+ years. The Generation that still gets its news from TV won't be much help. And anyone who thinks that meaningful change will resemble anything like a 1950's America, or that simply tweaking the status quo of politics, and economics is all thats required will not be a part of it.

Unlike any other time in history people have the power to mass communicate, and mass organize, and do so quickly. As long as that communication remains available, educated people will collaborate, 'radicals' will undermine the system, and movements will form spontaneously, increasing in size and scope. Most will be peaceful, but some elements will create fear among the PTB.

When the situation reaches a critical point for a sustained period, class consciousness will be self evident. Values will be reexamined and people will coalesce around basic demands: Food, shelter, equality, and a sustainable environment to raise their families in. Equality and a sustainable environment is not compatible with capitalism, global trade and imperialism as we know it.

There are already signs that some places are heading in this direction. South America banding together, realizing that they have more in common with each other than Washington, and working as regional bloc, along with the election of populist left wing leaders. The unanimous outrage over Evo Morales' plane being grounded was an excellent show of regional unity. Nation wide strikes also in Europe paralyzing the flow of business as usual.

Closer to home people on the inside, the Snowdens, Mannings etc, and hackers making public the rot within the system. And now even a few billionaires getting behind environmental causes. First Nation peoples banding together for the environment. Labor unions looking to reach out to any group of people wishing to improve the collective good. The resounding NO, that the people recently expressed to the MIC regarding Syrian intervention. Etc. Etc.

Over time the national mood and direction will have to shift because we have no choice. Degrees of socialism, collectivism, communalism, long term planning, and perhaps regional autonomy in some cases, are the only alternative to outright civil chaos.