Reply #76: I've been saying for years as have many others.

[MedicalAdmin]

Frankly a lot of us and giving up and moving on. Something can be done about this. Nothing will be. American's are weak, not because they are, but because they believe they are. They have stopped standing up for principles and started standing up for profits decades ago.

I don't believe that the US can survive. Balkanization seems inevitable. And while letting the small minority of people who already know this is happening know yet again, I don't see it making any tangible difference. It is a given, IMHO, that the US is done as an empire and perhaps as a republic. The only questios are what will be left that will be worth saving, where will it be, and who will be in those parts of the US worth salvaging.

John Edwards was right when he talked about 2 america's. He clearly identified and analysed the class war and put it in worlds that the country could understand. Most choose not to listen because the puritan patrol decided that getting his weenie sucked or whatever was a commentary on the policies he proposed. The man was flawed. His ideas were not. And in typical american fashion we dumped the bathwater and throttled the baby.

So what's the point? Progressives need to position themselves to pick up the pieces (or have their kids / grandkids) pick up the pieces. That is the best we can hope for unless we are willing to fight the rich with terminal persuasion.