This forum is the only reason I haven't left DU.

[Flying Squirrel]

I refuse to post in GD or Politics 2013 anymore.

I'm gonna leave the rest of my original text here:

I honestly wish Obama had let the country slip into another Great Depression. What he's doing now is simply prolonging our misery. He's like the enabler who prevents an alcoholic from hitting bottom.

This country is too far gone to come back through ordinary political means. Only when the people have nothing left to lose will they be emboldened (en masse) to rise up and dismantle the corrupt system. Until then, any attempt to keep any portion of the New Deal intact does nothing but prolong this Chinese Water Torture.

At this point I'd like to see the Democratic Party stop deluding itself into thinking it is at all helping matters on those rare occasions when it actually fights against the corporatist takeover of America. I'd like to see us hit bottom, because only then can we truly wake up, wipe the cobwebs from our eyes and do what needs to be done.

This post can be hidden, but the truth behind it will remain.

Unfortunately, in attempting to defend this position, I've come up smack against another truth.

Both Doncoquixote and rhett o rick suggested that people might turn to the right instead of the left if a second Depression occurred. My first instinct was, this was simply not possible. Then I started to respond to the issue of my supposedly advocating people dying simply to further my own political agenda, by pointing out that people were already dying - just a few at a time instead of all at once - and that 4,000 killed in the WTC bombing caused major changes while twice as many killed over a year's period does nothing to change handgun laws.

As I'm sure you're beginning to see, I couldn't finish the post because I vehemently disagree with the resulting changes which resulted from the WTC bombing - and the re-election of George W. Bush shows the number of insane and ignorant people in this country, therefore I can not effectively argue that people would turn to the left nor that they would avoid turning toward a dictator. I can not effectively argue that we would end up with a New New Deal, because the country has changed since the 1930's - and has changed in favor of ignorance and government-sanctioned propaganda on our public airwaves. I can't predict a new FDR-like savior, nor that the country would rally behind him/her.

So I will take back my post opining that Obama should have let a second Depression occur. However, this does not mean in any way that I support what he has done in terms of the financial state of this country.