Three Dog Night had it first methinks... what's a Marxist/fascist/socialist? Sounds pretty schizophrenic to me... The hatred does seem to run deep in politics these days, I feel like a stranger in a strange land. How about the progressives (who are hurting as a result of government behavior) and the so-called tea-baggers (who are hurting as a result of government behavior) getting together and finding some common ground? All I ever see is alienation from the progressive side, and their complaints are mostly the same as ours, they've just been misdirected as to the specifics of the causes. Talk about the issues affecting us all first, work on the common ground, then work to show them the misdirection and agree to disagree when necessary. We're all in the same sinking boat. First of all though, quit directing hatred AT them, because hatred breeds only hatred in response. As many reporters that have interviewed participants in tea-bag rallies have attested to, the vast majority of them are more clear headed than the vocal leadership. We're going to need them to find our way out of this mess so let's start finding ways to engage them. Directing hatred at them will just push them further into Rush's camp.

Good luck moving to Costa Rica, things are getting bad there. I have a friend who moved from San Diego several yrs ago, the economy follows ours, he had to sell his house he built at cost, Ex-Pats (Gringos) are not welcome or supported by the locals now (blamed for surging property values and bust), tourism fell off a cliff and those Americans living there are dealing with this:

We have just learned that dozens of open pit commercial gravel mining operations have been approved by The Costa Rican Government here on The Osa. In the coming months, from the Rio Rincon all the way to the Rio Tigre, expect to see dozens of international companies mining their way through our rivers with 100’s of trucks per day destroying our river estuaries water sheds and the end of “Pura Vida”! This will also choke the gulf as it is expected that this gravel will be used for all future construction projects on or near the Osa as well (i.e the proposed new international airport in Palmar Norte). EVERY Osa river has concessions lined up for approval. A privately hired geologist believes there might b

"...(T)he degree of (my) anger...", Curt?! You aren't angry?! If not, why not?! Our country is being sold out to globalism, world government, the eradication of True Liberty and Freedom, and mass corporate-fascist, military-industrial subjugation and enslavement and has been extremely successful already!! For God's sake, if that isn't more than enough good reason(s) to be VERY angry, I don't know what is!!

What has falsely believing that anger is "wrong", and curbing it, ever done for us?! It's gotten ten million innocent intellectuals and others interred and exterminated in Germany in the 1930s and '40s. It's gotten black Americans lynched, murdered, beaten to a pulp, wrongfully imprisoned in most cases, and "hosed" in more ways than one for the entire history of the United States. It's gotten about ten million innocent human beings, who were supposedly "guilty" only because they were so-called "useless peasants", mass-slaughtered at the hands of the U.S. government and military in the past 120 years or so. And the list goes on and on and on...

To paraphrase Henry David Thoreau, one of the greatest True American Patriots of the nineteenth century, when he answered a question from his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Why aren't you (angry), Waldo?" If Thoreau thought the U.S. was beginning to descend into the opposite of liberty about 160 years ago, it makes that descent a walk in the park compared to the hell that the U.S. is descending into right now.

So, Curt and others, please get angry, if you aren't already, and constructively channel that anger into waking up the washed-of-brains and dumbed-down majority of "Americans" to also get angry and constructively stand up against this descent into "American and world hell on earth". Howard Zinn (may he rest in peace) and many others would expect nothing less of us.

Now, to paraphrase Mahatmus Gandhi, "Be the (True American and world patriots) you wish to see (preserve True 'Constitutional Republic-anism', National Sovereignty, Independence, Human Rights, and Liberty) in the world". And Dr. King, "...(H)ave a dream (and make it a reality by being VERY angry at all of the un-American destruction of this country and world, and eradication of all of its human rights and civil liberties, and properly channel that anger to save this country and world)..."!

God help us if we don't!

I'm reading a lot of frustration among those who comment on TO articles. But there is a solution besides moving to CR, but it starts with being able to understand the truth about the real cause that has led us to a near despotic government situation in the USA. Henry George, in his book Progress and Poverty, explained the current situation of the USA more than 130 years ago. He also put forward the only feasible solution, the transfer of all taxation off of labor and productive capital and commerce and onto land and resource values and other "natural monopolies" such as public utilities, radio frequencies, etc. Monopoly power is what is killing the world. Leftists confuse it with "Capitalism" and it is the reason that "free markets' seem to be anything but free. God didn't make the Earth for it to be fenced off by those who don't use it, and monopolized for private speculative gain. The first human right, just behind the right to our own selves, is the equal right to access to mother Earth and her resources. Private property in land always leads to land monopoly, which enslaves all those who need land to live and produce on. All the other monopolies and corruption result from that primary cause. The proposed tax shift onto land values will get our ship back on even keel.

Now I'm with you all the way, Curt; but I think you believe me to be (far?) more angry than I am, or unconstructively angry which I'm not. [Btw, you can simply hit "Enter" now and create separate paragraphs with line spaces between them---it also took me a while to realize how other people were doing it, as you didn't used to be able to do that here.]

I can hardly stand to go out to run my errands and deal with people. If most of them don't get angry at you when you try to wake them up, even gently, to what is really going on, they paste a completely dense, phony smile on their faces and humor you like they supposedly know you to be the most insane person on the planet. It hurts so much that I can barely deal with it.

Most people have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, and they don't want to know; and, as I alluded to above, they think you're completely crazy for believing (actually knowing) the things that you do about what's really going on, because they refuse to believe that those things are actually going on, or have gone on.

That's what I mean about most people having been "dumbed-down", and about how effective that process has been. It's actually chemical and not simply lack of true education. People have been so poisoned with fluoride, female hormones, antidepressants, etc., that they literally don't know which end is up. They really believe that leading shallow, phony lives is "normal", "acceptable" and "preferable".

And getting through to them is well-nigh impossible because of just how insane they've been so effectively led to believe those who face and stand up against what's really going on supposedly "are". It is so sad that, rather than getting too angry, I almost can't function sometimes; and, if it wasn't for supplementation with Vitamin 'D-3' and St. John's Wort, I wouldn't be able to function.

But, Curt, I know I'm "preaching to the choir", and that you know all of this about the literal "washing of brains" of most people and how sad it is. I too would often almost feel like I'm the only sane person on earth, or one of an extremely "few and far between" minority, if I didn't have sites of truth to be set free by and to give me the satisfaction of not living a truly mass-insane "mentality".

Hang in there Curt and all those who are set free by the truth, as painful as it is especially with the level of avoidance and denial of it, etc., and don't let the degree of blindness to True Reality and Normality get you so down that you can't do anything constructive, but do whatever it takes, peacefully and non-violently, to wake more and more people up to become a force for TRUE Change and Hope that cannot be stopped.