Reply #3: If it is too much - take a break and focus on family & friends [View All]

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If it is too much - take a break and focus on family & friends. Yes - an awful lot of change is happening. And the horrid machinations and propaganda machine of the White House is not helping (throw a pile of crap onto this emerging world why don't ya!). There is nothing wrong with taking some time out and taking it easy politically. Build up a little strength. Try going to milder bloggers if it is all too much. Cause information hitting you at a mile a minute can totally overwhelm. And there is more than one way to be a good Liberal. Simply by going to church and sharing your values with other church-goers is a fine thing. Whatever you bag. Take and interest in the environment and do something to help start community gardens (and face only the plants). Make a friend online in another country - someone from a completely different culture. Visit the elderly and alone once a week. Or if you have kids - take em outside and play with them (yourself) every day. Play, play, play, play.

My understanding of China is that it will be big - but that India, Brazil & Russia will also be huge. So - do not be afraid. The worst enemy of the all-mighty buck is a long drawn out war. The capitalists (and there will be many rich folk in China) will not want business to stop for a day to fight a war (too much money will be made every day). And these days - land gives you nothing except for more people who you have to feed and school. I can see wars fought over limited resources but China will need resources from every continent in the World - all at the same time. So it simply cannot fight that many wars.

Chances are that markets will be 'kings' and governments will be of less importance. Already capital flight demands that governments behave in certain market friendly ways. Emerging markets are something to watch and you want to make good and sure your people are ready for this new world - so they can be a part of it. I may be a particularly difficult 'change' for Americans to swallow since you have been the big kid on the block - but those of us who come from smaller Western countries have not suffered for not being the biggest of the best (or now - the baddest). Perhaps we are more used to change just because we do not have so much control. We have the same quality of life as you - and in many cases - a much higer quality of life.

My biggest worry will be that corporations get too powerful and end up controlling the people (but they will all be fighting for their lives against corporations in China, India, Brazil & Russia & Europe & Asia - so they themselves will be busy). But - I come to a board like this and I see a big huge pendulum swinging back. Humans are a little slow to wake - but once awake we are capable of incredible things. Corporations will be no match for us. So we awaken!

Propaganda will soon start to eat itself if it has not already. Propaganda never lasts forever and in a democracy - it will crash. The opposition the White House faces is not weak and alone. But both sides are fighters and if it is not right for you to be in a heightened state of arousal - cut back. You are more important to the cause if you still have some fight in you the next time the vote is on.