How long...

The growing economic depression in Greece has led to days of rioting throughout the country. How long before riots break out in, say, California? Or another state? People are getting desperate here, too. We aren't the same stoic country that endured the depression of the 1930s. Contemporary America is full of angry, frustrated people. The decades of wedge politics practiced by Republicans and pandering by Democrats have dissolved the civility and spirit of community that kept America going in the darkest days of the Great Depression. In short, we simply do not have the moral and spiritual resources that Americans had three generations ago. We will not all grimly soldier on doing our duty. Some of us are will reach for guns and bricks; some of us will try to punish the society that so utterly failed us; some of us will go down fighting anybody and everybody. 2009 is going to be a remarkably interesting year.

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