Since
Ronald Reagan the United States has had three consecutive Presidents
(not counting the transitional 41) representing development of an
Underverse Party. The Underverse has few moral reservations beyond
personal or class egoism. International political or economic
competence aren't required for the job. Nephews, brothers, spouses
and sons of are favored Presidential nominees. The poor may always be
trimmed to bring the federal budget into balance, while contracts and
weapons to kill foreigners can enhance the corporate and government
class portfolio. Cheap illegal labor can be imported...etc.
It
is remarkable how few politicians seem to have any sense of how to
work for the general good of society rather than simply narrow
partisan if not special interests. Working against party enemies
seems the purpose of modern political activity. The concept of
objective and independent reasoning about what is required to make
the nation and population flourish within a health and security
ecosphere is nearly non-existent.
Youth
and the intellectually challenged may work for the pecuniary
remunerative enhancement of social credit accounts of course.
political leaderships should have some sort of larger vision though
about matters such as value theory, the place of the environment in
the world and enough political philosophy to get beyond cold war era
theory.
Achieving
the election of a race, gender or perversion preferred candidate is
no substitute for political competence. While party interests may
rise the ship of state may subside. The danger is that with the rise
of an Underverse platform it may be exported and forced on other
nations. The international relations incompetence of U.S.
administrations of since the 20th century turned should never be
misunderestimated.
Before
the Spanish American war swelled Presidents and Congress the U.S.A.
never had been in a foreign war of significance (not counting the
counter-Mexican invasion). After that the clever British induced
America to get involved in a continental European war twice and a
cold war ensued. During the Bolshevik revolution the U.S.A. even sent
2000 soldiers to Russia to support the white army at war against the
red army. U.S. Presidents are fundamentally idiots looking out more
for British rather than national interests disregarded George
Washington's farewell address comments entirely.
Consider
U.S. history with Iran and Iraq. Iranian history is one with three or
four parts of society holding power one at a time. The least powerful
element was that of ordinary people. Military supporting royals or
theocrats could rule yet the ordinary people aspired for democracy.
When they finally achieved that in 1953 the U.S. led coup to get rid
of the Prime Minister and restore a monarch gutted democratic
aspiration. Then after decades of repressive aristocratic rule
supported by the U.S. Government the left supported Khomeini to get
rid of the monarch and SAVAK-the secret police. So once again the
United States was involved on both sides of anti-democratic power
struggle in Iran-is it any wonder that many Iranians regard the
U.S.A. as the great Satan-especially the Underverse party with
homosexual marriage and abortion?
The
British had invested in exploiting Iranian resources for quite a
while and were peeved when the Iranians expropriated 'their' oil
fields. Since then the United States has again been involved in a
fairly unreasoned effort to follow up on a neo-colonial state's
relationships that went bad. That occurred in Vietnam too with the
French being that former colonial power.
With
Iraq formerly being under British rule after the first world war it
was inevitable I suppose that after the cold war ended Iran and Iraq
would be incited to have a bloody war. Eventually of course the
United States got involve and spent trillions of dollars rebuilding
Iraq rather stupidly-it was supposed t cost just 50 billion dollars.
Iraq was not a Germany or japan willing to join the western fold
after defeat. Instead the principal of Islam asserted itself and a
decade of civil conflict in Iraq enhanced by the Obama administration
stimulating Arab Spring conflicts leading to attack upon the Syrian
and Libyan governments has brought protracted conflict and the
proliferation of Middle East sourced terrorism.
The
Middle East seems to be a dog fighting political ecosystem that in
the absence of the big dog of direct American power fights against
its own for scraps of power and privilege. One must be somewhat naive
to think that Iraqis will soon well govern themselves civilly with
democracy and that it won't require the big dog to kick any
challengers.
Thus
one could even wonder if the efficient policy might not be to let all
the conflicting parties kill one another without material support
from the U.S.A. and then napalm the winners. Christians can't follow
such policies of course, yet such circumstances might never occur if
American Presidents were good leaders environmentally, politically
and comprehended modern things such as full employment, secure
borders, career employment security and space colonization in a green
way.
Plainly
a moral restoration needs to occur in the U.S.A. However with the
wedding of Republican corporatists to the Underverse possibly ahead
if Justices Cagney, Ginsberg et al vote for homo marriage, it would
be challenging to bring that about.
