Zydeco
12-19-2011, 05:39 PM
This is what happened in the USSR: the political, military, media, educational, monetary, financial and artistic elites were discredited swiftly and simultaneously when the contradictions of empire became to burdensome to bear any longer.
We may be nearing such a moment here with the Ron Paul campaign as catalyst. The political, media, financial and monetary authorities are clearly terrified of what is happening: large and increasing numbers of Americans learning about the contradictions of our own overstretched empire, and ready to change course. Those institutions that fight the reform risk being publicly discredited, but it's not clear what choice they have.
We may be nearing such a moment here with the Ron Paul campaign as catalyst. The political, media, financial and monetary authorities are clearly terrified of what is happening: large and increasing numbers of Americans learning about the contradictions of our own overstretched empire, and ready to change course. Those institutions that fight the reform risk being publicly discredited, but it's not clear what choice they have.