Bright Lights

If you have been watching the news lately, and reading some indepth reports online (not on the front pages, I might add), you might be getting the same wiff that I’m getting. This week, the Government of Iceland collapsed, workers are outraged and there is even rumors of a revolution there. In Brittain, soaring unemployment is leading to protests, increasingly growing in size. In the United States, showdowns are forming between banks and homeowners as they fight to keep their homes. In China, factories are closing at an alarming rate.

If you haven’t yet guessed what I am talking about, here’s a hint. The fires of Socialism have been lit. Now, before you start screaming, this is not the Leinin-Socialism that created a very poor country. The scent I am getting on the air is that simply the people, the workers, want the power.

Boiled down simply we have two groups: a small, very wealthy group; and a increasingly massive group of poor and middle-class.

I have a grave feeling that World War III will not be a war between nations, nor will it be radical religious extremists, but the official World War III will be the wealthy few versus the working many.

Decades of wanton consumption and wasteful practices by everyone, regardless of class, have resulted in the climate we see. Banks became too greedy to actually ensure they were lending to someone that could afford a home or a business loan, and people became too fixated on the glory of homeownership or starting one’s own business. The people came hungry, and the banks dished it out. Before someone decries banks as the only evil-doers in this situation, I might remind everyone the bank didn’t sign the home loan papers without reading them, nor did the bank come looking to buy a home when it could not afford to. It was the homebuyer. They put ink to paper, they signed the form, they are just as responsible.

On one hand I cannot blame the group of people out there that are unknownly calling for socialism. The wealthy class of the world have taken advantage of the working class for far, far too long. Yet at the same time, as much of a socialist as I apparantly am, I don’t see getting to it by these means as healthy. I’m torn. Both are right, both are wrong.

So it begins in 2009 as the commoner rises up the world over. I fully expect riots in Detroit in the next four months, with copy-cat riots in every major city throughout the country. I fully expect the United States to go bankrupt, and unfortunately, it will be in the hands of the most capable person to try and wrangle ourselves out of this mess. I honestly believe this has been a setup. It is clear to me the GOP nominated McCain because they knew the old bag couldn’t win one-man race. George W. continues to order his cabinet to keep quiet to Congress (very suspicous, don’t you think?), on top of handing the keys over to the first Black President, but giving him a Porche that had been driven into the ground for personal gain.

My friends, watch the next few months. Just watch.