Hitting bottom

I'm thinking about the possibility that the surest way to socialism might be Barack Obama losing to someone like Michelle Bachman next year, and a Republican takeover of the Senate, followed by the inevitable abolition of the economic safety net, privatization of everything in sight, and the imposition of the religious Right's social agenda.

When it becomes clear that the current institutions of government are so corrupt that the same powerful private interests get their way no matter who is elected, we should forget about them and set up new institutions, such as local councils of working people's deputies, to represent the common interests of ordinary Americans.