I keep hoping that I've been dreaming. I keep hoping that the growing spiral of bad news, wars, bank failures, collapsing economy, shrinking pay, vanishing rights and cartoon character leaders and candidates are all just a figment of my very active and detailed imagination.
I keep hoping that I'll wake up someday, and that the last 7-some-odd years have been a long-drawn-out nightmare. I'd wake up, and my money would be worth more, I would be able to afford to buy a home, no one is being killed in a pointless war, our economy would be fairly sound, and our leaders are solid, sane, and mostly reasonable.
In my dreams... No, the reality is that we do have cartoon characters for leaders and candidates, celebrate stupidity and denigrate intelligence, consume mindlessly, and have squandered our standing in the world. Now, foreign businesses are picking at the unraveling threads of our banking system, and we are no longer truly sovereign. The nightmare is real, and the decay of the last 7 years has been incredible in its swiftness. Even Rome took more time to fall.
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