Written by Eugene Lutz   

RECIPE FOR DISASTER

Collect the following ingredients (can all be found in the U.S.):
Absurd laws
Absurd wealth
Apathy
Assassinations
Assassinations with drones
Attacking other countries for dubious reasons
Bad guys pretending to be good guys being elected
Bank rate tampering
Bombing other countries
Censoring of important news
Charles and David Koch
Chemical warfare
Citizens United Supreme Court ruling
Clever evil people
Corporations meddling in education
Corporations meddling in government
Corrupt Congress
Corrupt judges
Corrupt judicial system
Corrupt police
Corrupt prison-for-profit system
Corrupt President
Corrupt Supreme Court
Cruel and unusual punishment for petty crimes
Demonization and stereotyping
Deregulation
Detention without due process of law
Disinformation
Disregard for human rights
Disregard for international law
Environmental destruction
Executive privilege
Extraordinary rendition
Foreign governments and interests meddling in government
Fossil fuel industry lobbyists
Fox News and other corporate-controlled news networks
George Zimmerman with a gun
Gerrymandering
Global warming
Greedy ruling class
Herd mentality
Idiots with guns
Ignorance
Indefinite detention without trial or charge
Indoctrination
Insider trading
Internet neutrality threatened
Large corporations squeezing out small businesses
Laws that benefit criminal element in government.
Legalized fraud
Legitimization of torture
Liars
Lobbying
Making it legal to lie on TV
Mass surveillance by the NSA
Mentally ill with guns
Militarization of police forces
Military aid to Israel and Egypt
Military-industrial complex
Misinformation
Murders of civilians by police going unpunished
Naivete
Neoconservatism
Neoliberalism
Not punishing major crimes
Oligarchy
Passing of bad laws
Pepper spray and tear gas
Phony science
Police brutality
Political extremism
Politicians who pretend to share your values
Poverty and desperation
Prejudice and racism
Privatization
Profiling
Pseudo-intellectuals
Religious hatred and racism
Repealing of good laws
Scandals
Secrecy
State-sponsored terrorism
Stop and frisk
Stupid people
Supporting corrupt governments
Television stations mostly owned by large corporations
The death penalty
The Democratic Party
The Patriot Act
The Republican Party
The Tea Party
The War on Drugs
The War on Terror
Unlimited campaign contributions
Use of torture in U.S. prisons (solitary confinement for decades)
Veto power
Wall Street corruption
War profiteers
Wars of attrition
Wars for no reason at all
Wars for oil
Wars for profit
Weapons of mass destruction
Wrongful incarceration

Mix together in a meaningless mess and take cover.