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Mark Bittman
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THE police killing unarmed civilians. Horrifying income inequality. Rotting infrastructure and an unsafe safety net. An inability to respond to climate, public health and environmental threats. A food system that causes disease. An occasionally dysfunctional and even cruel government. A sizable segment of the population excluded from work and subject to near-random incarceration.
You get it: This is the United States, which, with the incoming Congress, might actually get worse.
This in part explains why were seeing spontaneous protests nationwide, protests that, in their scale, racial diversity, anger and largely nonviolent nature, are unusual if not unique. I was in four cities recently New York, Washington, Berkeley and Oakland and there were actions every night in each of them. Meanwhile, workers walked off the job in 190 cities on Dec. 4.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/opinion/sunday/mark-bittman-is-it-bad-enough-yet.html?smid=tw-share&_r=3
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)the next two years of a rabid Congress is going to make things worse.
2016 has no possibility of righting things. The elections are now run by Wall Street and conservative corporate zillionaires so we will get a Wall Street puppet As president no matter who we vote for.
2020 will be even worse because of all the Republican run states that will have even more power to gerrymander stronger than before which will lock in a conservative Congress until 2030.
Change in a positive direction is not anywhere on the horizon. If protests start to effect change they will be stopped immediately and violently.
About the only thing that could have an effect is if some big corporate computers were hacked and all the data spewed out like Sony. But this would probably only result in the internet being blocked, censored and monitored, especially with Comcast growing to be the exclusive American ISP and the NSA becoming omnipotent.
Its a bleak future for our country right now.
We the people people don't really matter. We've lost our seat at the table and are being fed scraps on the floor with the curs.
I don't see anything that will change this direction in the forecastable future.