The lowest common denominator seeks its own level.

The economy is already suffering because we let the left dismantle our industrial capacity and the fact that the most selfish political parties on the planet want to work togeter is not surprising since they've been already working together, intimately, since 1992.

The Chavezification of the unintelligent masses is just one factor one has to deal with in human societies comprised mainly by millions of sheep and thousands of wolves.

In the US, as the masses ponder Britney & Paris pantiless exploits, while demanding their handouts, the wolves will be busy shearing them of their economic inheritance. Already the Mexican invasion has decimated our economy and the sheep are too ignorant to figure out why their graising fields get sparser and sparser - exponentially at this point.

Europe's socialist and communist wolves have made it very clear they want the US to lose in Iraq, they want to use the middle east as their resources provider/customer base and cheap labor.

The future of the world looks bleak (bleat?) at this turning point. I suspect average intelligence has taken a dramatic hit over the past twenty years as schooling and education has been taken over by those who us it simply for propaganda dissemination - teaching the sheep to be good sheep. Even discussing intelligence and IQ rates of folks is politically incorrect - as ordered by the wolves who like their flocks to maintain the status quo.

The parasites will always have enough to feast upon. They feast on sheep and wolf alike. The wolves have plenty of sheep to gorge upon so they will also never go hungry. That just leaves the sheep bleating and swarming over a barren Earth just waiting for their turn, to be devoured. If they're unlucky they'll be anemic enough and untasty enough to watch their children get devoured first.

Welcome to the 21st century.

I hope you like it.

It only will go downhill from here. Yes, some folks, if so-motivated, could start redirecting this dismal timestream, but I fear that too many folks presently alive, NEED to go through the dark ages again.

Robbing them of the learning experience would be another crime.

So the secret, Tom, is being able to watch the sheep be sheep and the wolves be wolves - and not let it bother you. Expecting to reform one or the other only leads to headaches & frustration.

Evolution will do that eventually.