From the mind of critic: “If things have to get worse before they get better, is it because it takes some of us much longer to see problems? Do we think that problems aren’t that bad, and therefore don’t require solutions unless they’re personally and forecfully slapping us in the face? Do we see the problem right away, but because it is so big, so inbedded and so gerationally powerful, that we also fail to act unless it personally slaps us in the face? Or have we let the problems fester, because we’re searching for the perfect solution that will be long lasting, and we wont settle for anything less? Problems come to us at different times, for all different reasons. Maybe our life experience guides our action or inaction in a certain direction, because it’s what we’ve always been told. Maybe our biases and pre-concieved notions have grown so strong, that if we hear anything that pokes through the armor that those biases have created, we think we’re being threatened so we become even more entrenched. Whatever stage we’re at of seeing big picture problems that affect us all, we could all agree the next few years will be very interesting. Every extreme thought, feeling and action that has ever been dreamed up, will be thrown out on the table. Over half the departments of governement, gone. Medicaid, medicare and social security, gone. Food stamps, fianancial assistance and public education, gone. Environmental protections, diplomacy and regulations on everything from food to taxes, gone. There are many more extremes I could list, it would take a book to list them all. I’m not saying all these things will come true, but I guarantee every single one will be attempted out in the open, for the entire world to see. Maybe we need to do something about it now before it gets real bad, and/or later when it’s effects start hitting us. We must do something, anything, unless we want America as a concept to longer exist” 🙂