how do we release pressure on the lid of a political pressure cooker?

There is an incredible amount of interesting revolutions taking place across the globe!  Egypt has peacefully removed it's leader by simply demanding that their leader leave.  Tunisians rioted until the prime minister took control of the country from their leader and his strong arm.  Libyans are protesting for the removal of their violent dictator, Gaddafy.  Wisconsin is rioting over the loss of teacher and emergency support retirement pay.  American governments and government entities are struggling to find ways to pay for their services. Many governments and individuals are faced with inevitable insolvency and bankruptcy.

A new development concerning the handling of former leaders and their massed fortunes seems to be that they are freezing the assets of these individuals recognizing that the money may actually belong to someone else and that it was taken unlawfully.  Additionally, the UN and individual countries are scrambling to decide how they will approach new leadership and old.  I'm sure those countries with the largest oil reserves will get the most and quickest attention.

The Governor of Wisconsin has been accused of bringing in agitators attempting to break down the unity of protesters.  Not only does that bring to mind Pinkerton Security forces historically known to infiltrate labor union disputes in the 1800s during the western expansion of this country, but it causes me to question the potential of any group to manipulate political opportunities during periods of unrest like we are experiencing globally.  Groups like this have long been dismantling African attempts at peace or political direction while the first world reaps the benefit of harvesting Africa's resources.  It also brings to mind the fear of a potential for corporate mercenary armies to become the new political force operating in politically unstable areas.

Among all of these conflicts, economic instability, unemployment, and political corruption have contributed to the downfall of political forces.  An unusually high number of youth, out of work and uncared for, has contributed to more than one of these revolts.

In the United States, monopolization of media sources (news reporting, editorial commentary, and I shudder to think- reality tv) create new buzz words while focusing on historical sore points to increase political splintering.  Hate groups are a burgeoning new force.  We are simultaneously kept ignorant of many facts like the actual number of people unemployed because statistics have become a shell game.  Many people have simply fallen off the statistical radar, and outside of political discussion, because the driving force of assessment has become strictly political and is no longer a tool of simple inventory.

Political parties have thrown political civility out the window in favor of exposing, often creating, wrong doing while capitalizing on hate campaigns.  More unfortunate is the lack of one side to speak the other side's issues in honest and direct ways.  New parties are moving in to compensate for the lack of political leverage or productive movement.  These parties add to the level of frustration for individuals but because they are ideologically formed from the existing political arm to address government issues, they completely miss addressing a primary concern, that of a capitalist economy.

Capitalist forces of industry, large corporations, labor forces and unions, banks, stock market, have left the American industrial market in favor of third world labor forces, without paying any tariff or tax to this country, because they seek what they call unregulated manufacturing.  In essence, they have stiffed their primary purchasing market leaving the American worker with no job, and no salary to purchase the coveted items that industry hopes to sell.  America is an abandoned market.  Newly manufactured goods reach the world without the promise of health and safety, and without a stable market as they are substandard and simply eat up resources without having longevity.

Subsequently, the forces of industry have been found to have failed in self regulation. Resting on government bailouts, they continue to be self serving and care little for the taxpayer that aided them when in need.  The economy is highly volatile.

I could continue on in the historical disadvantages of being an American at this point it time but i am ready to retch this far into the discussion.

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I am not knowledgeable enough in the individual histories of these rioting places or their individual fights to speak about nuances and possible outcomes.  But under the common pressure cooker of economic instability, unemployment, and corruption I find myself wanting to look more deeply into the failures of our systems that currently leave us on this doorstep and to examine what it is that all human beings need to unify peacefully and cooperatively.  So in favor of  a creative process instead of a the destructive process that is going on, I want to work toward an understanding of the need for government and creating the political and economic forces that will rely on it.

And knowing that I just can't shut myself up on certain smaller skirmishes, I suppose I have to acknowledge that I will continue to rail about what I perceive as injustices in our current situation . . .but it's MY soapbox.