2012: Why Not the End?

I've been thinking about all the factors that could be in play in 2012. With that kind of bad craziness in the air, why not buy a handful of end-of-the-world lottery tickets.

In 2012 we could see:

1) Worldwide Recession. Joe Bidden's idea of spending your way out of recession has set bush fires in the minds of socialist governments throughout the world. Greece looks like it will be the first to learn the relationship between interest rates and credit ratings.

2) Russia is rearming and learning economic warfare.

3) China's military build up should be blossoming into action soon.

4) Iran is going for the bomb. This will force Israel into a war. A war that could drag in everyone else.

5) South American's move toward communism is already breaking down the supply of food. This could create a flood of refugees moving north.

6) Natural disasters. If all the nations are too broke to provide assistance, the usual number of disasters will add more instability.

7) California is rushing to be the first state to default on its debt obligations. This is not going to be pretty.

8) The Tea Party movement represents a large emotional force opposed to what the federal government is doing. There exists an opposite emotional force that supports what the federal government is doing. The 2010 election will leave one of those emotional forces very anger with the outcome. Both forces will see the 2012 elections at the last stand.

When reason fails, violence follows. I don't see Reason winning any converts from the events above. It is human nature to put off painful decisions until reality leaves no options. When the vice-president of the United States can say, "we must spend our way to prosperity" without being frog-marched to the funny farm, you know the world is no longer playing with a full deck. The entire world is in a hole and it wants to borrow money to buy more shovels.

When the world is insane, Bedlam is the last haven from the crazies.

P.S. If no weather condition can disprove global warming, it is a religion. It is simply assumed to be true and has no place in scientific discussions.