Sweeping generalizations like "capitalism" do not point in any direction of improvement. Obama is fighting for regulations on the untrammeled greed-mongers, protection for the vulnerable and international stability all at once, and he has been doing so against heavy odds including his legacy from Bush and the most psycho gang of destructive caterwauling seen in this country since Fort Sumter.

And no, I do not see the collapse of civilization in our life time, I see a miasma of media-inflated fear-mongering and nutsiness disguising both the best and the worst of facts.


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