I think that the ruling powers that be, which are the corporate-owned mass media, the corporates themselves, and the banks, will make quite sure that people like Dennis Kucinich do not get elected to lead countries, but that people like Obama and Romney and Blair and Cameron and Sarkozy and Stephen Harper and (Boris) Yeltsin get elected instead.

Business as usual.

It would require the radicalization of hundreds of millions of ordinary people to bring down those powers that be and change the basic system. Our rulers (or our owners?) would not go down without causing massive bloodshed and destruction, in my opinion. They would provoke dire crises, wars, and financial disasters to maintain their power.

However, a radicalization of the general public appears to be the only hope we have...short of the planet itself doing something that brings down the ruling system. And that something would also cause massive destruction, in all probability.

It is indeed Fascism which looms on the horizon. It becomes more obvious every day.