The economy will be screaming so much -- with the Right's media blaming the collapse on Obama's "failed" policies -- that many Americans may be desperate for a change, perhaps even the radical "free-market" prescriptions and "small government" nostrums of the Libertarians and the Tea Party.
Those tattered old ideas won't help most Americans, who have seen the middle class shrink over the past several decades amid right-wing economics and deregulatory extremism. More of Ayn Rand's winner-take-all capitalism will only concentrate more wealth at the top one percent while further hollowing out the 99 percent.
However, if Republicans are allowed to get their way and the Democrats, as usual, give way, the deliberate infliction of pain on the national political structure will likely end. Thus, the public screaming will be more muted, heard only in the desperation of individual Americans scrambling to make ends meet.
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