Of Legalism's Mal-Adaptive Effect On U.S. Politics

Sarah Palin and the U.S. Republican Party tend toward political presentation with a territorial and extra-territorial litigious accent upon non-renewable economic and energy policy. The historian Arnold Toynbee noted in his A Study of Civilization the cycle of a formerly creative majority merging into being a non-creative minority. The Harvard law school cum political prep academy, exemplifies the college of uncreative corporate boring-of-holes into the economic hull in which lower class and middle class Americans live like storm-tossed, nauseous Pilgrim-work chattel below the salon decks of upper-class corporatists cavorting with caviar while eying cheaper immigrant workers lustily above..

The problems with the economy of the United States today with a slow recovery from recession with continuing high unemployment are largely factors of corrupt anti-ecological economic practices of corporatism taking maximum profits in the wake of the end of the cold war. A corrupted populist concept of capitalism that allows large corporations to seem to embody the ideal of Adam Smith is ubiquitous and also wrong. Adam Smith’s capitalist criterion was a de-mockratic body-checking empowerment of individuals and small businesses versus the oppressive powers of the state and any large organizations that intimidated individual free enterprise.

Large international corporations have basically taken over government, advertising for political office, and through their control of politicians-the economic choices of direction of the United States of America. It is pervasively an anti-conservationist and non-ecologically economic foundation of non-renewable use of environmental resources.

The Democratic Party in the U.S. Congress in 2009 and 2010 has failed to achieve much besides propping up over-extended corporate profit takers and restore global capitalism for another round of shaky harvesting of available resource. There isn’t much creative thought in the U.S. Congress regarding how to solidify a new American democratic nationalism economically.

The Republican Party of the United States stands to benefit with the Democratic Party failure. In Alaska the Republican Party is the majority in state government. It provided the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in the 2008 election; former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The Alaska Republican Party in some respects is representative of U.S. national political phenomenality.

The State of Alaska Republican majority in the Alaska House And Senate seems to have a majority of lawyers with a few psychologists thrown in. There are a few head of construction or fishing large men as well--the kind of guy that might be a football coach. A couple of districts have sent a medical doctor and of course there are veterans and even a teacher with a B.E.D. yet there are no scientists or philosophers. There is a dirth of creativity--the Republican Party is formed to apportion existing resources. As adults none sought to be creative inventors or to boldly go where no economic innovators have gone before. None seeketh after ecological comprehension, none pursues new ways of thinking. The Alaska state Republican Party has appointed their most charismatic member--with the least education, to the chairmanship of the renewable resources committee. Since the Republicans in government simply line up in support of existing large trans-national corporate oil and extraction business in the state, or advocate harvesting the Tongass National forest and drilling for oil offshore in critical habitat areas, it is understandable that they wouldn’t appoint a sharp scientist to lead the renewable energy committee--they have no scientists anyway.

In the 15the century strong militaries and a flock of first-rate lawyers could have rightly defended economic policy based on consumption of environmental resources and a policy of economic growth transforming ecological and mineral resources, water power ad coal into products and energy for economical development. Today in the 21at century that policy is profligate and despoils the environment as well as the nation’s economic future.

The United States must have a renewable energy and resource use policy based on sustainability within national borders as should all nations. Taken together such a policy would generally promote planetary economic sustainability. U.S. public spending sold be allocated for the United State rather tan Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iraq; while a moon base as a long range ongoing project to secure helium 3 and begin an ecological economic policy of growth of biosphere where none exists should begin.



The national Democratic party, in giving up the moon, has retreated from the heritage of John F. Kennedy. Backing down in areas where they should stand up, and moving forward in global policies from which they should sober-up to a sea-change of reason, is reason enough why they may lose their majority in November 2010.

Jobs could be created building a Mexican border control zone across the nation with elevated berms, salt-water canals and fishing lagoons useful for recreation. Desalinated water could be used to bring more water to New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.

A July 2006 issue of Scientific American had a fine article on a national energy infrastructure of a new kind--a super-conducting grid for power and hydrogen. A smart Congress would pursue each of these plans as well as restore the moon base Constellation-Orion with an accentuation of positive super-conducting wire loop leads collecting solar power and mass organic photoelectric capture. Fiber-optics bringing light underground and super-conducting storage loops, will make perpetual lighting for food growing practical.

When Congress is filled with lawyers litigating, economics tends to become non-creative and of service more to the wealthy than the people--pervasively corrupting society and precipitating the decline and fall of civilization. Lawyers are like a leavening in the bread--too many and the banking and financial systems rise too much like a gaseous soufflé, to collapse with a requisite that government inflate it once more.

More scientists, philosophers and ecological economists are required for a right democratic government and a new spirit of nationalism and zero growth economic prosperity with full employment. Growth must occur in quality and spirit rather than in consumption and waste of finite resources.