Where the Republicans and Democrats went wrong
after the end of the cold war was in going entirely global while applying
deregulation domestically to its financial markets letting the best laid scams
of mice and Wall Street elites run roughshod over national democracy. As is the
case when select conflicts are resolved Gresham's law of bad money following
good developed. The intellectually deficient applied their half-baked concepts
about capitalism in a global political environment without substantial resistance.
As when hubris strikes a cruise ship captain
taking his vessel to fast and to close to a tourist sight running aground, or
when a oil super tanker captain sleeps off some booze and let's his 3rd mate
run onto a reef, and even when a hot shot pilot flies an aircraft under a wire
to only catch it and crash America's financial and Wall Street elites supported
by politicians of the second rank swell with theory and practiced basic
incompetent political economy. So the world today at least in the West is
somewhat worse off and of course the self-righteous gospel of unregulated
capital is undiminished though the consequence of that is no more than
bankruptcy of the United States and consolidation of wealth unto global
plutocracy.
In the present amusing Congressional clash over
Obamacare and federal default the inability of either Democrats or Republicans
to work for the good of the nation is evident. Since the left to the Democrats
through a workers of the world unite phase of a third Internationale or Comintern
conditioning the effort to go global and belittle nationalism has gone forward.
Paradoxically the capitalist elite side is even more global than the Democrats
now, although some Republican followers of the rich make noises about
nationalism, there is no national party. Republicans and Democrats make
unpleasant Nazi noises about anything like a nationalist party that
concentrates on making all of the citizens of the nation prosperous or being
national debt free.
It is an insult to posit straight white American
men as Nazis for being nationalist especially so since they are the group that
defeated the Nazis in war as well as the confederates. In each case they were
fighting against the emergence of global elites, oligarchies, dictators or
monarchs to power in order to defend the principles of national democracy and
true egalitarianism. That system still works best, in spite of the sophism,
propaganda and power in support to global capitalism or collectivism
transcending borders.
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