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The 2012 election looms like a specter awaiting the brain dead as they cross the River Styx. The pernicious myth of Horatio Alger is the sirens' song that leads them onwards to the
fatal embrace of a coalition from Hell: gun packing, constitution waving, anti-tax libertarians and wealthy, corrupt, crypto-fascist corporatists. Both are bent on dismantling the tottering remnants of FDR's social welfare legacy. Sarah "Reload" Palin may have stuck her mouth over her barrel after the Tucson massacre, but
Obamacon must walk a
political tight rope for the next two years, and the rope is
fraying. The way ahead may be fraught with disaster and uncertain, but what is clear is that no amount of "competitiveness" happy talk will change the coming reckoning for our unsustainable consumption of the Earth's finite resources.
