Monica,
As bad as it is, the politics is still just theater.
As the executive and regulatory function of society, government is analogous to the central nervous system.
The real problem rests in the fact that as the value circulation mechanism, money and banking are analogous to blood and the circulation system and that is where the real problem rests.
All the political hysteria, bipolarity, fixations, projections, etc, are symptoms of this metastatic cancer turning society into a vortex, as positive feedback draws the assets into an ever tighter center, while negative feedback pushes the debts out around an ever broader perimeter of society. Leaving most people falling into the void and blind to reasons why the foundations are crumbling.
While it might seem like conspiracy theory to say there is some conscious intention driving this, it has been a fact of life since the Ancients, hence the practice of debt jubilees. Michael Hudson has done some interesting work on it. Here is a recent interview;
It's not as though we don't sense, if not directly understand what's going on, but that it is just so overwhelming, like a herd of elephants and most people are grass.
Yet the fact is they control just about every aspect of the public. As I try pointing out, capital markets couldn't function, without the government siphoning up trillions in surplus invesment money, such that the secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.
This should be profoundly evident to anyone with any knowledge of modern life. Government bonds are the foundation of our system. Much of which goes to fund endless wars, so more can be borrowed.
Yet can you think of any media making that point? Even alternative media is blind to it and mostly just absorbed by this political circus, where the right hand keeps smacking the left hand and vice versa.
Our national religion of money is built on an economy of debt and the future we have been borrowing against has arrived.
