The Most Important Thing You Have to Think About Between Now and November 2016

Warren-Hill, Publishers

Editor@TheIndependentDaily.com

We have no defined course to the future in America supported by the majority of Americans because we have no defined American any longer. Plainly, we have become a country of diversity – hailed for its many benefits but, to our extreme detriment, unrecognized for Diversity‘s degenerative effects.

As an example, across our country children are returning to school after summer break – some lengthier than others – to classrooms that are, generally, no longer White in majority. Nor are the majority of the students, notwithstanding their ethnicity, from the strata within the formerly defined Middle Class. Nor do they predominantly share a common religion. Nor do they embrace common societal traditions. Shared interests are generally mindless technological pastimes – Facebook, Twitter, and the like. They are a reflection of our changing America.

Sixty, seventy years past Congress was predominantly an arguably productive body of older White men promulgating laws predicated on the normative needs of the population of a well-understood Social Democracy: The majority demographic was clear and predictable. Tacitly, collectively, and sometimes very reluctantly they agreed on Social programs reflective of the needs of the minority of society’s members in order to carry-on the Social Democratic mandate. There are no discernible societal norms today except those of the gerrymandered district represented by the House member whose ethnicity, religion, and traditions are likely to be reflective of his or her electorate, and very diverse.

Getting people together in a group – a crowd, team, panel, council, or other assembled mass – has inherently always resulted in a level of productivity and creativity less than the individual average capabilities of those assembled. Gustav Le Bon1 told us this many years ago, yet we continue to believe in the fallacy of Synergy and in the intellectual flexibility of human beings, neither of which exists in practice.

As a result, we argue, bicker, cajole, torment, threaten, and accomplish little directed to a shared good. Instead our Congress is powered by the one consideration that may sway any Congressional member in a direction away from that member and that member’s district’s common needs: Money.

Productivity in Congress is thus reduced to legislation intended to benefit the influences of those who possess Wealth. This is the necessary end product of a Neoliberal economic basis in a too diverse society where its law-making body is free to enrich themselves by the gifts of others.

It will only get worse…

By the premises of Keynesian economics, a Social Democracy must substantially retain the driving forces of its economy within its borders. In America, that is not the case: Jobs in Manufacturing – those at the core of a sound economy – to a very large extent have been transferred elsewhere to China and other Pacific Rim and European countries, leaving us to sustain our society on Service, Government, and Welfare “Employment.” That is why China has become an international economic powerhouse and today’s Land of Opportunity, notwithstanding its Communist government.

We, on the other hand, have become the Land of Welfare devising new ways to guarantee our citizens – nearly 50% of our otherwise qualified labor pool – an alternative form of sustenance freeing them from the burden of work and assuring America’s network of Welfare Retailers who peddle cut-down, diluted, cheap, and short-lived products made in China, a never-ending source of revenue.

What does the US Flag mean to you today?

To a few stalwarts it has significance and retains its glory of a time past. I am part of the remaining generations (although I no longer embrace a chauvinist perspective). Yet, ironically, the majority of shoppers who frequent Walmart, Dollar General, and the like  - the Welfare Retailers – still honor the remains of our once great country and take (sometimes vociferous) umbrage at any unpatriotic remark. To me the US Flag is a remnant of when I was young. It is, as the Walmart clothing label intends to remind us not so subconsciously, Faded Glory.

In truth, America as an institution means less and less every day. It is becoming a quaint, historic anachronism of government foibles, and gun-slinging, pot-smoking, increasingly illiterate, “disabled” and culturally ignorant rabble.

Worse, for everyone involved, our economic basis has eroded to the point of near-collapse being propped up only by the continued “contributions” of foreign investors – China in particular – who sustain our practices by buying our manufactured “Debt” and supplementing economic growth by acquiring our assets (Realty and the like).

Is Global Neoliberalism bad?

America has a fast approaching Sell-By date. Without substantial change soon we will become a derelict society dependent on making war and policing the world as our only exportable product, short of the Fracked oil we labor to produce through the sometimes destruction of otherwise very stable ecosystems.

Regardless of what Anthony Giddens2 may idealize, there is no Third Way as an emerging approach, other than to die a slow and painful death. There are only two formative paths to America’s future. We must select one: We must either return to what we were previously or quickly move on and embrace the logical (and only) next step in Globalization.

Embracing a Globalized Neoliberal Economy

Working with China, Vietnam, and other countries with whom we share a substantial trading relationship, we must abandon Flag, Constitution and Xenophobia and come to understand that a Neoliberal economy will not work so long as we do not share a common currency, Social Welfare platform, Manufacturing basis and job opportunities, and other aspects necessary to effectively managing a Nation-State. In short, we must become One Nation out of the former multitude. No longer the United States, China, Vietnam, India…we are now together something else moving ahead toward common goals, which presumably will be to eventually include the balance of the world’s current governments while growing and managing the constantly increasing population of our new country.

There is nothing left of America, anyway. We have become a dysfunctional synthesis of Socialism, Fascism, Capitalism, and other economic and leadership mechanisms which has emerged from the resultant molten pot of heterogeneous population, and more importantly, economic influences.

War and Reversion

Our alternative is to fabricate the basis for global conflict, primarily between China and the United States. The provocative nature of China’s recent actions is probably sufficient enough for our next Right-leaning president, if things go as they always do, to invigorate a spirit of Nationalism through typical machinations and bring us to beyond the precipice of war. We will, ironically, form an alliance with at least Vietnam and Japan. This war will likely result in a conflagration of historic proportions resulting in the deaths of tens-of-millions of women and children.

In the dismal light of the first dawn following the conflict, though, if we are the victors we will have unburdened ourselves from the economic shackles binding us to China and we will be driven to re-establish the Social Democracy of the past. So, from our disparate societal past we will emerge from the kiln of war an amalgam of a new America.

Your Choice

In November of this year you have the opportunity to voice your opinion as to which path we take. You must read and understand and think.

Two years following this November you will make the next choice toward our path to the future. Take that interim opportunity to learn what each candidate professes as his or her platform and look at all candidates independent of partisan relationship, remembering that the reason we are where we are today is largely because of the shared interests of both Democrats and Republicans.

Vote for whom you wish because you are knowledgeable and understand the implications of the candidate’s intent, not because of a posting on Facebook or a video on YouTube.

Now, read the AP report on US Wealth Gap, here. In November, do your job - Vote.

1 Gustav Le Bon. The Crowd

2 Anthony Giddens. The Third Way