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Wednesday 14 November 2012

Pouring gas



 
 
 
Greece is an extreme, but they're hardly the only ones.  Short-term, top-down policies are common, as are divisive, aggressive politics and corruption, which is denied by the use of even more rhetorical vitriol.  Our leaders have forgotten the rules of political gravity.
 
People are losing faith in not just their political leaders, but their very institutions.  There's a cliff just past the horizon, one that can only be avoided if all sides of the partisan spectrum start pulling together.  It won't happen, though, because we have deluded ourselves into thinking that we are individually or tribally master of our own fate.  Will we keep pushing at each other until it's too late to back down?  Probably.  What has happened before shall happen again, etc.
 
But then the cycle resets, as predictable as the dawn.

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