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Rising income inequality in

David Seaton — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:31:26 +0000

Rising income inequality in the USA, with stagnant or falling incomes, now with high, long term unemployment with absurdly short unemployment coverage (only 6 months) topped off with no national health plan (when people lose their jobs they have no health insurance) means that Americans have to deal with more anxiety than the people of any other developed country. This anxiety makes calm discussion and reasonable policy making difficult or impossible.... and THAT hysteria affects everyone on the globe, America being the problem nowadays and not the solution.

Your blog alludes to a point

Peter Schwartz — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:42:38 +0000

In reply to Why I miss George W. Bush more and more with each passing day

Your blog alludes to a point that I think is important...

And that is the importance of capturing the reigning ideology.

Ideology is more important than individuals because it's all-pervasive, like the air we breathe. It thus colors the way we think about issues and the options we think we have.

The conservative ideology has reigned really since Reagan, but with Carter presaging it in some ways. Clinton and Obama are liberals who've found ways to get elected in the face of this ideology. But they haven't been successful in changing the prevailing winds.

And here I thought I was

Peter Schwartz — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:38:34 +0000

In reply to LOL! Got me, Dave!

And here I thought I was falling down on the job because I mostly ONLY comment on others' blogs.

Yes, and the beating of a

brewmn — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:40:45 +0000

In reply to American anxiety affects

Yes, and the beating of a butterfly's wing in Omaha can cause a tsunami in Japan. I was hoping for a slightly more direct causal connection.

*Looks around, goes back to

William K. Wolfrum — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:33:19 +0000

In reply to While you sit over in Spain

*Looks around, goes back to his churrascaria*

LOL! Got me, Dave!

we are stardust — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:41:45 +0000

In reply to I shall visit you

LOL! Got me, Dave!

I shall visit you

David Seaton — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:39:08 +0000

In reply to Most all of us have serious

I shall visit you assiduously!

Most all of us have serious

we are stardust — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:50:54 +0000

In reply to Stardust, Only so many hours

Most all of us have serious time constraints, Dave, but manage to comments on at least a few other blogs of interest.

Stardust, Only so many hours

David Seaton — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:15:26 +0000

In reply to LOL! I really do like the

Stardust,

Only so many hours a day for blog tending, with a family and a job.

brewmn, Some so-called

rmrd0000 — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:51:20 +0000

In reply to How is a lack of a national,

brewmn, Some so-called Progressives have gone completely mad. They have a laundry list of complaints and then conclude with the statement that none of their complaints can be solved. Can you imagine how emotionallly draining it must be around people who admit defeat before they have even attempted to do anything?

Some truly believe that by letting a political foe win an election you have actually won a victory. These so-called Progressives have a depressing message and then wonder why people don't feel inspired after hearng their views. At the end of the day they only thing that they have is the same depression driven anger that we get from the Tea Party.