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I want to call your attention to an article by Robert Parry originally published in Consortium News. Take a look at the headline and subtitle:

This Country Just Can't Deal with Reality Any More

As Election Day 2010 approaches, the consequences of the nation’s three-decade-old decoupling from reality are becoming painfully obvious.

And here's how it gets started:

As Election Day 2010 approaches – as the United States wallows in the swamps of war, recession and environmental degradation – the consequences of the nation’s three-decade-old decoupling from reality are becoming painfully obvious.

Yet, despite the danger, the nation can’t seem to move in a positive direction, as if the suctioning effect of endless spin, half-truths and lies holds the populace in place, a force that grows ever more powerful like quicksand sucking the country deeper into the muck – to waist deep, then neck deep.

Trapped in the mud, millions of Americans are complaining about their loss of economic status, their sense of powerlessness, their nation’s decline. But instead of examining how the country stumbled into this morass, many still choose not to face reality.

It's a riveting article, actually. Mind you, I don't agree with everything Parry says here. Nevertheless, everything he says makes you think. I would also urge you to read the comments that follow because many good points are made (and questions are raised) there as well.
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