CONSERVATIVING ONE'S WAY OUT OF A PAPER BAG

CANNOT BE DONE.

ALSO, PROGRESSIVING ONE'S WAY OUT OF A PAPER BAG, CANNOT BE DONE.

FURTHER,

COMPROMISING, MIDDLE OF THE ROADING, ONE'S WAY OUT OF A PAPER BAG, CANNOT BE DONE.

AMERICAN 'POLITICS AS USUAL', 'TURNING OUT THE INCUMBENTS', 'KEEPING THE INCUMBENTS', 'FIGHTING OFF THE NEOCONS', 'RAISING THE BANNER OF THE LIBERALS', 'COMPROMISING',

ECONOMICS, ANY WAY YOU TURN IT, SANCTIONS, CARROT OR STICK, EMBARGO, YOU NAME IT, NOW,

WAR, E G WWII,THE GREAT SOLUTION FOR THE DEPRESSION (WORKED A LOT BETTER THAN THE RATHER ANEMIC NEW DEAL),

WAS IN MANY WAYS JUST DUMB PROSPERITY LUCK FOR THE US, WON'T WORK NOW,

NONE OF THIS, NOW, CAN GET US OUT OF THE GATHERING

GLOBALIZATION TRAP

WE HAVE LONG DUG FOR OURSELVES BY OUR SYSTEM.

THIS INTENTIONALLY HOBBLED SYSTEM NEEDED TO BE FIXED BACK IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, ALREADY QUITE OUTMODED, AND WAY TOO CUMBERSOME, EVEN BY MID 19TH CENTURY.

BUT TOO MANY KINDS OF DEVELOPMENTS, PLUS BLIND LOYALTY TO OLD OR NEW RITUALS, ESTABLISHED OR ESTABLISHING VESTED SECTIONAL OR CLASS INTERESTS, PREVENTED POLITICAL REFORM, WHAT I WOULD CALL POLITICAL RATIONALIZATIONS, FROM HAPPENING.

NOW IT IS, I THINK, TOO LATE.

See also: Jordan Roy-Byrne, Nov 3, 2010 article........