America’s Political Class Struggle - by Jeffrey D. Sachs.

An excellent article that summerizes succinctly where the economic and political future of the US is going if things currently unfolding, are allowed to continue.

Can you believe - the richest 1% of American households now has a higher net worth than the bottom 90%?

It's funny but the right-wing (as housed politically in this country by the Republican Party) is almost by design thinking like a corporation for their patrons. They cannot or do not see the long-term damage they are doing to their own interests by creating and encouraging an economic situation that will eventually collapse. This is no surprise - though perhaps the shocking part is the lack of more public discussion of this topic in the media.

Oh wait - that's not shocking either, since most of the media in this country is largely controlled by 5-6 large multi-national media conglomerates.

Still, it's nice to know I'm not the only person who thinks this way -

If this continues, a third party will emerge, committed to cleaning up American politics and restoring a measure of decency and fairness. This, too, will take time. The political system is deeply skewed against challenges to the two incumbent parties. Yet the time for change will come.

Real change will not come from within the system that society has set forth and created the very real problems we now face. Real change comes from society itself and specifically from those who can think, who can observe, who can learn, and who have the will and the courage to act to make it happen.

While I don't wish to disparage those of a conservative nature, I see the biggest obstacle in front of real positive progress for all is the American Right-Wing.

The real question for me is - will such change come in time to save us all from our own inevitable demise? How can people really effect real positive change on a global and person level, and all points in between?