Reply #197: Let's not paint the devil on the wall

[tama]

The mayor of Oakland blinked and is now in full retreat.
Tony Baloney has been moved to other services.
Etc. etc.

Truth is they are clueless and they know it, fear and worry is all they have. They have no answers and are hoping hippies will save their asses too. They know about Peak Oil, limits of growth, impossibility of capitalistic growth etc. etc., all of us in the same boat. But they can't make the change for us, we the people need to wake up and take responsibility. Deep down "the powers that be" want to "lose" and give up control as peacefully as possible, they just go on because of old habits and because they don't know what else to do.

Elites in the old soviet block knew they had lost legitimacy and had no answers in 1989, and went away with small puff and whine. The situation with the other leg of the ancien regime is not very different. They are ready and ripe to fall, when we the people are ready take responsibility for our selves and each other.