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Midterm Madness: Another Episode in America's Descent into Perdition

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The 2014 Midterm Elections have now ended with predictably sad results. In reality, it could not have been otherwise. Even the best imaginable outcome within the range of realistic possibilities would have been at best disturbing.

My fundamental distress over the current political universe is this:  I perceive a broad spectrum of current problems and looming crises in the nation and the world. These growing threats range from the suppression of popular dissent by means of mass surveillance and militarized police forces to epidemic levels of environmental degradation and catastrophic climate change. This lethal combination is poised to destroy not just our species, but the Earth’s biosphere. Few if any politicians are taking any of these matters seriously, mostly because they owe their souls to greedy and apparently overwhelmingly powerful forces that have chosen to let their own short-term selfishness determine the course of our future.


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