Survey of the big picture

One could fail to see the forest because of the trees.  The trees are current events as it flows along.  The forest is what it all means.

This is a prediction post.  After all, the blog's overall intent is to try to fathom the course of events, and predict the future so as to profit from that.  If not profit, then to minimize losses.

Just before the New Year, I predicted that we may find out if the GOP is a me-too party or an opposition party.  It wasn't clear which way that one was going to go.  It looks to me that now the main body of the party wants to be an opposition party, but the head at the top of the party wants to be a me-too party.  Which one wins?  No prediction here, but the struggle for control will continue.

As for the economy, it looks dead in the water.  The real meaning of Obama's administration is that it seeks to grow the government, not the economy.  This puts the political struggle into context.  The lack of growth in the economy is the pivot point on which the politics will turn.  If the truth matters, the Democrats will lose the struggle.   That's the key thing to remember, "if the truth matters".  For the culture seems to be moving into the direction of untruth.  The evidence of this spans the entire culture, there can be no doubt about this.  A prime example of this is the Zimmerman trial and its aftermath.  The body still follows the truth as shown by the verdict.  Yet the head wants us to believe the untruth that this was a racially motivated crime.  This assertion may not seem relevant to economics, but it is.  It is cultural and the culture will determine the politics and thus the economy.

The head wants quantitative easing.  This will continue since the economy is not responding.  The propaganda of an improving economy will continue.  The blaming of the GOP for the lack of growth will continue and the demand for more government to fix the lackluster economy will intensify.  The head already has an alibi for its failures--- it's the other guy's fault--- meaning the GOP.  The body will be pounded with propaganda in order to get it to go into the direction the head wants to go.

The head doesn't want the truth about the scandals.  The body does want the truth about the scandals.  The head may do just about anything to divert attention from any new revelations that may unravel its control over the enough of the body so that it can keep itself in control.  Hence the panic over terrorism even though the head assured us less than a year ago that Al Qaeda was in decline.

Thus we will find out if the truth matters anymore in this country.  If it does, then Obama and his brand of politics is finished in this country.  For Obama and his cohorts are not about truth, but are about control.  The outcome of this struggle will determine the future of the country.