It must be something catching.  If you call yourself ‘democratic’, then you’re not. First the People’s (self-selected minority) Alliance (of un-democratic leaders and sheep-like followers) for Democracy proposes a New Politics that is not new and certainly not democratic.

By the standards of US presidential elections, a landslide is apparently defined as one candidate getting 55% of the popular vote.  So President-Elect Obama is some way off that, for all the headlines.

 Everyone now claims they saw the global economic crisis coming (the earliest claim known to Harrison George dates from 1854).  But few are predicting future scenarios.  This week’s column foresees a dystopia 20 years from now.  Next week’s column will offer an opposing vision called Future Good.

The nation’s middle-class has been outraged at the use by police of lethal teargas and government-conspiracy secret explosives, without warning, against non-violent PAD protestors armed with nothing more than sticks, sharpened rods and guns.  This blatant attack on that part of society with an exaggerated sense of its own importance and an inadequate sense of reality is leading to further repercussions.