Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Can America Survive With An Order Of Distinct Variety?


Various factions, classes or ethnic conflicts within America are gradually breaking America apart, between the 1960's baby-boomers, the independents, the new professionals, the growing minorities, Latino's, Blacks and others, and of course the 1% global power masters. Can we survive it?

The new professional class seems to be the only faction doing well financially, because they took the new jobs in the burgeoning service sector requiring college and upper graduate degrees, which replaced the jobs lost in the outsourcing of American manufacturing. To be blunt, the new professionals live well because America sold out its manufacturing base to the global power masters. The top 1% benefited most by far, but the money did trickle down to the new professionals who service the 1%, yet it trickled down not much further than that. This faction will not support a return to American manufacturing and economic nationalism, although some of them do support the Jeffersonian libertarianism of Ron Paul.

The minorities tend to vote for the big government programs from which their lives have largely depended, so a return to small government, small business, and states rights won't get their vote, although natural ethnic pride could eventually lead them to supporting more regional independence.

This leaves the 1960's generation and the new Jeffersonian libertarians to support a return to economic nationalism, independent states, and light federalism. But many of the baby-boomers support big government entitlements, even though these entitlements will be changed for future generations---although with economic nationalism, taxes from tariffs on foreign imports will cover some entitlements, as well as lowering taxes on American business. And the libertarians don't support economic nationalism---they don't have much of a problem letting global capitalism trample over everyone, even though they don't want government to do the same thing.

There also, oddly, continues to be a lack of understanding among conservatives and Republicans regarding the differences between neoconservatism (William Kristol) and paleoconservatism or traditional conservatism (Pat Buchanan).  The liberal media (including neoconservative Fox) doesn't help in this because they are largely on the side of the neos. So most “conservatives” support the global power masters, and most are global capitalists, rather than affirming the economic nationalism of true conservatism.

The only way I see to keep America from going the way of the Roman Empire is to reaffirm and actually go back to our original Republic, which included a light federalism protecting the real independence of small states, as well a base of economic nationalism. We trade with the world, of course, but we take back our country from the global power masters who have all but destroyed it. 

It is either a return to America of the original Constitution or we will have an increasingly Orwellian new world order ruled by plutocrats, or civil war, or fascism, or communism, or an overall despairing chaos.

I think we can have order along with a distinct variety of people and classes living in America, but to have this requires the real independence of our states and regions, as envisioned by our Founding Fathers. And reality says we need to be protected in our variety with a light federalism, with economic nationalism, and  with strong national defense.

Empires always break down into many small states in any case, with some sort of federalism, because it best harmonizes with real human nature.

Ultimately there is more to life than political philosophy, namely religious philosophy, that is, we are evolving to Godhood in the cosmos, and for this sacred mission we require very long term Ordered Evolution and Revitalized Conservatism.

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