Read : http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/148778/hedges%3A_a_collapsed_economy%2C_hateful_conservatives_and_ineffectual_liberals_are_a_recipe_for_fascism/?page=entire.
The article reflects most of my views on recent economic and social developments, but I never could describe them as well as the author did.
I cannot possibly do justice to the article by copying a couple of excerpts. But, just to whet your appetites :
"All sides of the political equation are lackeys for Wall Street. They sanction, through continued deregulation, massive corporate profits and the obscene compensation and bonuses for corporate managers."
"The entire spectrum of the political landscape collaborates in the strangulation of our disenfranchised working class, the eroding of state power, the criminal activity of the financial class and the paralysis of our political process."
"Commerce cannot be the sole guide of human behavior. This utopian fantasy, embraced by the tea party as well as the liberal elite, defies 3,000 years of economic history. It is a chimera. This ideology has been used to justify the disempowerment of the working class, destroy our manufacturing capacity, and ruthlessly gut social programs that once protected and educated the working and middle class. It has obliterated the traditional liberal notion that societies should be configured around the common good. All social and cultural values are now sacrificed before the altar of the marketplace."
"Our social and political ethic can be summed up in the mantra let the market decide. Greed is good."
And so on and so forth. Please read the article ! Blue blooded Americans will consider this to be pure communist horse manure and dangerous anti-American drivel. But I think it holds a large portion of truth, not only for America. What it states about globalisation and free markets is valid everyhere.
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