President Obama & Congress Rollover Decadence to the New Year

President Obama's idea of politics as the art of the possible represents the insipid fatalist acquiescence in the new American decadence dumping vast public debt and two badly thought out foreign military spending quagmires following the conclusion of the cold war and squandering of the 'peace dividend'.

The construction of an economic sow's ear from a silk purse by the U.S. Government from 1990 to 2011 required a lot of teamwork. Corrupt leadership, an ignorance of history, bad military and financial judgment, myopic greed-these were some of the characteristics instrumental in promoting nationally deletious politics flumping our policy outward on a global scale. In the spirit of the times the phrase par excellent is que sera sera (if that how it's spelt) boldly blundering on into 2011 ignoring the need for comprehensive refounding of basic infrastructure of the U.S. economy in order to make a transformation into an economy of low entropy, quality growth only with zero net immigration.

Another year of disposable resources, fifty thousand dollar SUVs, millions of immigrants, outsourcing of jobs and global corporate networks concentrating wealth in the United States along with real political power creates an existential threat to liberty in the U.S.A. In Alaska Sarah Palin's former Lt. Governor supports the kind of policies that would increase fossil fuel exports such as coal to China. A nominal white women pre-emption of progressivism (Palin) Presidency would likely be a puppet for global corporatism and bad world energy policy acellerating a prophecized new world order of secular mohammadanist rule of an anti-Christ from a synthetic temple mount-dome of the rock. Alaska as a foreign energy resource colony is a tool for global corporate whim.

We cannot afford to assume that multiculturalism can replace ecological reformation and quantitative rather than qualitative economic growth. Compelling U.S. domestic political development to follow global corporate personnel marketing strategies is a betrayal of the history, tradition and people of the United States that was founded on independence. All U.S. citizens ought to have equal rights and opportunities to a good life, and that goal is betrayed by globalism, degradation of the environment and decadent social and moral situation.

A Tea Bagger Congress steeping through the holiday season for some Americans brings the prospect of new energy and change that was lacking in the Pelosi led congress that eventually transformed into a Beijing lame-duck feast for billionaires and gays looking forward to high paying military service. The actual possibility of meaningful change has been set off until 2012 when the tax cut extension ramrodded through by President Obama expires.

The political transformation of the Congress and Presidency into a feel good about ourselves government and fiscal responsibility charged to foreign lenders is not too surprising. No less of a authority that Dave Barry in his 2000 political book 'Below the Beltway' produced convincing evidence that something funny has cohered in Presidents and presidential candidates for at least the past forty years. Since the era of photogenic presidencies the intellectual quality has certainly been in decline.

The U.S. Congress is hardly better than the surfeit of under qualified if not incompetent U.S. Presidents since Dwight David Eisenhower left office. The trouble with democracy as Aristotle pointed out is that the people are simply not competent enough or sufficiently interested in public affairs to make competent political selections therein opening the door for corrupting rule by special interests and in some instances, tyranny. We may find a tyranny of a proletariat or an elite populist front for plutocracy. President Obama turned out to be a front for Oprahcracy as his friend-one of the wealthiest American women and television star, deserved tax cuts along with all of the rich to tax rates so low that the concentration of wealth is dangerously accelerated. The trouble with congress is that there are few representatives with ecological economically apposite ideas. Without a core of congressional members with nationalist and low entropy ecological economic ideas the prospects for positive change are virtually nil.

The positive energy conjecture is a cosmological idea that any isolated physical system requires positive energy or mass to exist. The deficit spending, ecosystem depressing anti-national interest laws promulgated by the congress and signed off on by stuffed suit or skirt presidencies (or both in the post 'don't ask or tell' era) seems proof that negative energy can inflate a negative inside the beltway universe. The public cannot expect an intellectually incompetent and morally deficient congress (it's loyal to the rich and globalism) to innovate ecological economic policy responsive to the real environmental challenges of this generation or two or three.