While very few people like the current socio-economic/political
changes in the U.S., it is well to remember that the current
personalities have very little to do with what is occurring.

In many ways we are like a mass of ants on a drifting log in a
river headed over the falls. No matter how the ants run around
on the log or which side of the log they mass on, they are going
over the falls. As far as any of the ants can be said to be
responsible for this, there are the few that failed to preserve
the threads that kept the log tied to the shore, and the very few
that actively cut those threads because they wanted the log to go
somewhere, not just lay there.

The underlying causal factors appear to be financial/corporate
deregulation, international free trade, and open borders [for
both people and products/services].

These factors became active a generation or more ago, and were in
preparation for years before this. The side [undesired] effects
do not have seem to have been considered [or were ignored]. The
vast majority of citizens are now paying for this oversight, even
as the elite obtain wealth beyond the dreams of Crassus.
http://www.historynet.com/roman-pers...of-carrhae.htm

Because of these foundational changes, we are seeing a global
societal paradigm shift as substantial as the
evolution/transformation of the old midlevel / manorial
socio-economic/political model to that of the nation-state. At
that time everything and anything was blamed for the apparent
collapse in the social order.

For one mans take on what the world will look like in 2030 see
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...637830,00.html

Calling the current politicians names will not change anything.
Indeed, we more than likely are well past the point of no return,
and time/money spent in an attempt to reverse these changes is
simply sending good money after bad.

As the nation-states are largely disappearing before our eyes,
the critical challenge now appears to be how to control the mega-
transnational corporations, where the real economic/political
power now appears to be located.


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).