Rising Inflation ? Check.
Rising Unemployment ? Check.
Ethnic division ? Check.
Alienated working class ? Check.
Fearful middle class ? Check.
Savings destroyed ? Check.
Investments collapsed ? Check.
Clueless rulers ? Check.
Right-wing parties on the rise ? Check (well, acording to Jon Cruddas and Mike Ion, anyway. See under "rulers, clueless") .
Anti-Semitism likewise ? Check.
Starts to take on a certain resonance, doesn't it ? If, as some on the far right and far left would have it, those pesky Zionists control everything in their own interests, they're making a pretty poor fist of it - to put it mildly.
