Can't Keep Going Down This Road Forever

We are running out of water, and overheating the planet, so the people who govern us can have their wars. More to the point, besides diverting money away from necessary improvements---health care, infrastructure, poverty relief---it's hideously wasteful and destructive of our environment. Unfortunately, so many of our job creators have got their tentacles in the Pentagon gravy boat at this point, it's hard to imagine how we will ever reverse the growth of these institutions that not only threaten our liberty but also our viability as a species. Guess the best thing we can do for now is elect leaders who understand that major systemic changes need to be made in the way we run our society, and that will require equally far-reaching changes in the collective consciousness of America's leadership class. All great military empires eventually crumble under their own weight. This time around, though, our collapse could possibly take the rest of the world down with it.

---Baron V