Espresso more powerful than tea?

I don't agree with Pelosi on much, but suspect she's nailed that a "there will be blood" situation is at hand. Too bad she doesn't understand why.

My take on events is that a vocal minority of right-wing "Teabaggers" have positioned themselves as a bastion against what they interpret as Socialist changes. For our friendly Capitalists, and because consumption levels exist no matter if governments or individuals foot the final bills, these changes fall secondary to a gathering of the working-class into a controllable entity. Successful shepherding of labor, constructed in recent history through an artifice of "family values" fundamentalism, has been carefully maintained via political fringe-issue fear mongering. In simple terms, worker support of Capitalist keepers is maintained via a false fraternity, with the working class actively believing they inhabit the same sphere of influence as their masters. The Teabag workers, believing themselves gathered under the safety net of Capitalism (The market takes care of all!) feels safe and beholden to these masters. All is good. "Teabagging" demonstrations are viewed from above as nothing more than bleating from the corral.

However, removal of the worker from the benevolent corral through unemployment forces market realities to hit these now "free range" workers like a cattle prod. Their childlike trust that Capitalist masters would benevolently continue to support them via "food on the plate" wages, regardless of financial climate, crumbles under the weight of reality, reduced bonuses, and empty wallets.

This is where things get dicey.

The tipping point probably depends on two things merging into an historically supported result. The first requirement being the failure of a quick job recovery. A delayed recovery gives unemployed workers time to recognize their true position in life based upon bottom lines and not the fringe issues they were told would ensure a lifetime membership in the Capitalist club. The second necessary action is elevation of a leader capable of pulling these enlightened workers into a brotherhood. That brotherhood cannot be one titled "Labor", which a term more frightening than starvation to the heartland, and must be inclusive.

The delayed recovery is at hand, leaving only an empty space awaiting a leader capable of recognizing these workers' particular needs. Once displaced workers set a leadership foundation what action will they take? What other way to correct the "American way" other than through destruction of perverse financial systems that lead to our ruin? Our headlines are running almost daily reminders of hubris and greed and underline a certainty that financiers won't awaken before their own downfall at the hands of angry masses. The masses are tired of being faulted for not buying MORE, not giving MORE, not doing MORE for Capitalists for nothing in return. (Meanwhile, in a perfect storm of ignorance, our political leaders have responded by further emptying workers' bank accounts and handing even that to the financiers.)

It's difficult to believe that a leader won't appear -- but perhaps not impossible considering the bulk of our political hirelings lack even basic reasoning powers. Pelosi shakes and fears a leader may filter from the "fringe right" she so loathes. I don't agree. The right flank is incapable of consolidating the lower classes except through fear, and they've already spent that round. More likely this leader of the workers, if he/she rises, will come from her own ranks. Interesting times, indeed.

Grass is different.

Once upon a time, with spines and petals.