An End To An Era

Things are coming to a head.  The world's economies are in tatters.  The situation is not improving.

Here in the US, the President is regularly exceeding his authority.  The faction that he leads consistently chafes under the limitations imposed upon it by the Constitution.  If they had their way, they'd abolish it.  Instead, they will do everything they can to ignore it or go around it.  The trouble with this kind of thinking is that undermines the glue that holds the nation together.  If it goes too far, and it appears that it just may do that, the whole system could go into crisis.  In response to that, anything could happen.

This President is also in a bit of political trouble.  He has a number of scandals that are dogging him, and his supporters are doing everything they can to shore up his support.  At the moment, he still has substantial support, but there are cracks appearing.  In response to this, the President is now turning to the trick of all tyrants or budding tyrants, which is warfare.  Obama is rattling the sabers.  First with Syria, and now with Iran.  This is suspicious because he ran on a peace platform and was elected for the primary reason that his predecessor waged numerous wars in response to the 9-11 terrorist event.  There is plenty of reason to believe that his attention to foreign affairs stems directly from his weaknesses at home.  The economy is not doing well and his scandal threaten to undermine him completely.  The saber rattling looks political because it probably is.

There's a crisis brewing in Congress as the opposition wants to undo the administration's signature legislation of the first term.  Of course, this will be too much for Obama and the Democrats to accept.  Obama has a political war on his hands while threatening to start a real hot war in the Mid East.

All of this points to an event that will be like a perfect storm.  It will wash over the landscape and change it forever.

Perhaps nothing will happen and all of this is just a tempest in a teapot.  But I don't think so.  It isn't just politics as usual.  Something is brewing out there and it is big.  Something has got to give and when that happens, there will be a change.  What that change will bring is too hard to say at the moment, but things are definitely coming to a head.

I look for it in the next month or so.  It may start with a stock market crash or an event somewhere in the world that is like a spark that sets it all off.

I predicted early in the year we may find out if the GOP is an opposition party or not.  We are about to find out.  They will either fold or they will stand.  If they stand, there will be a crisis.  That could be the kickoff.  It's that or something else, but something's gotta give.

When that something does occur, and I believe that it will, then it will be a new era.  The old ways won't stand.  New ways will replace the old and a new era will begin.