So why am I excited about 2010? I think this year many more Americans will begin to bear the pain of the corporate and warmongering state, led by a gutless, fat-cat Congress and its fake but very expensive wars on terror, drugs, tobacco, alcohol, fat, privacy, private property, guns and free speech. They will bear it with decreased personal revenue and the frustration of dealing with government at all levels. They will increasingly suffer repeated small humiliations associated with living in a mature confiscatory and emerging police state. As they suffer, they will be increasingly exposed to the utter waste and stupidity of our government, at home and abroad – and will begin to consider themselves superior to it.
What if, instead of a new series of state-created and state-led wars, we got some recombination of a people-created and people-led war against the state? We have seen and lived the Ron Paul revolution, and witnessed the undeniable rise of Tea Party populism. Coming mass tax increases combined with state and federal defaults, and inflation, will shape the American psyche in a way that could make us quite ungovernable. In government circles, 2010 could become known as the Year of the Bad Serf.
In the face of expensive wars and a dying desperate federal state, 2010 will mark the year that Americans self-consciously embrace the power of civil disobedience, and launch a decade of fundamental and good-natured repudiation of all things government – its wars, its debts, its never-ending lies and yes, even its promises. It’s already happening, and it’s going to be a lot of fun.
There is no doubt that the Democratic mandate has pretty well disappeared, and who knows what is next. Something unusual seems to be happening. Maybe this is it.
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