2016 Postmortem

If you think this can't happen (not necessarily to you personally, but to your area in general) think again. If you live in an area with a healthy job market, it may take longer, but sooner or later, "neoliberal economic sacrifice zones" (as Chris Hedges calls them) will eventually find it's way to a neighborhood near you!... Woohoo! Fun to be had by all!!!

But seriously though, the American Empire is going through a slow but steady collapse, and I'm not really sure if we'll be able to save it. Even if we reverse course entirely, it may be too late. We might be able to slow it down though, so that instead of our grandchildren (or great grandchildren(?) bearing the brunt of it, we could put this kind of scary future off just a little longer. Sadly though, we are probably eventually going to bring down the whole rest of the world with us, due to fact that we are much more globally interconnected than former dying empires were. That is-- if climate change doesn't wipe us out first.

Sorry to be such a Debbie Downer, but I just call em as I see em...