Reply #62: speaking only for myself, it's not that I'm "hoping" for failure . . . [View All]

it's that I see the underlying insanity of a capitalist system that is based on unlimited growth in a finite world . . . since the seeds of its own destruction are embedded in such a system, it's not a matter of hoping, but more one of waiting . . .

the bottom line in this country is that no real progress will ever be made as long as corporations -- whose interests are strictly and solely maximizing shareholder value -- are calling the shots, making the rules, writing the laws, and ravaging the planet . . . what we're engaged in is a power struggle between us, the American people, and them, the corporations -- and they're winning, big time . . . unless and until that changes, no other change of any substance will be allowed to occur -- not in healthcare, not in war and peace, not in energy, not in food and agriculture, not in civil rights and liberties, not in environmental protection, not in anything . . .

and if that change can only come about with the corporations devouring themselves and each other in the unending drive for more and more profits, so be it . . . no amount of bailout money is going to change the underlying fact that capitalism, as practiced in America in 2009, is a self-defeating system that will collapse under its own weight sooner or later . . . THEN we might see some real change -- but only then . . .