There are no end of geezers out there still clinging to the past. They see in their saviour the high quality traits they see in themselves. He is their Avatar. Therefore what else to do but claim that the unraveling of the good old days is a vast left wing conspiracy. Because "It was all going so well". How will the world survive without corrupt frat boys at the helm?
Sadly, their fantasy rule premised upon monetizing what other generations had created, was always doomed to end badly:
Sadly, their fantasy rule premised upon monetizing what other generations had created, was always doomed to end badly:
As we see below, George Bush Senior had the most balanced trade policy since Jimmy Carter. Which is part of the reason he never got re-elected. He was never a Supply-Sider. He was for balanced budgets and balanced trade. He wasn't willing to sell out his country for offshore moneyed interests. Which is why the NeoCons hated him. Conversely, NeoCon Larry Kudlow has now reinvented himself as a trade warrior. The NeoCons are shape shifters, always have been. They started off as Trotskyists and ended up to the right of Attila the Hun.
Of course, the prodigal son inherited none of his father's wisdom, choosing instead to embrace the NeoCons who had subverted his father:
"From its origins in 1930s Marxism to its unprecedented influence on George W. Bush's administration, neoconservatism has become one of the most powerful, reviled, and misunderstood intellectual movements in American history"
Of course, the prodigal son inherited none of his father's wisdom, choosing instead to embrace the NeoCons who had subverted his father:
"From its origins in 1930s Marxism to its unprecedented influence on George W. Bush's administration, neoconservatism has become one of the most powerful, reviled, and misunderstood intellectual movements in American history"
As lost as we may be without them, we are starting to see a nascent awakening in society that the past has no future. A realization that recycling the same bad ideas over and over again each time with more leverage can't lead to anything but worse and worse outcomes. Along with this comes a nascent mindset towards downsizing and conservation. The value of time over money. The belief that the true value of money is in our ability to control our own lives, not in what we own. Valuing living things over dead things.
To be sure, among the majority, rampant consumerism is the order of the day. Perhaps more so now than ever, by way of papering over ever-rising discontentment and unhappiness. More of the same to fix more of the same. Those are the people heading for the brick wall of depression, emotionally even more so than financially. They have nothing real or substantive to fall back on, having been lied to and used continuously. Their journey up the Maslow hierarchy of needs started and ended at the bottom.
