Americans Are "Hope Fiends" Because Honestly Looking at the Present Situation Would Destroy Just About Everything We Hold As Reality

An awareness of class makes clear who is screwing whom. That's why American capitalism's official line is that we are a "classless society."

There was nothing left to steal, so extorting the future was the only option left. Assuming the skimmers and the scammers manage to extract enough public monies to pump up corporations one more time, there will be another and bigger disaster not far down the road. We don't need the Oracle of Delphi to predict this. Capitalism is unstable as hell, like an unbalanced dreidel that keeps tilting ever more wildly off center until it falls over or eventually ... Full Story »

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Chris Finnie
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by Chris Finnie - Mar. 2, 2010

Too long. No point to it. Nicely written meandering. Bageant should spend less time with his tortillas and more time thinking about what to do about any of this.

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