A new political party is inevitable

I received a comment a while back about starting up a new political party. The thought of even a mini revolution made be salivate. However, I don't think that I nor anyone else is going to need to make a conscious effort at constructing a new party. Right now there is a course of events occuring that will take care of that job. Here's the situation.

First, It seems to me that the pocket books of the regular joes are getting light. Economists are babbling their dribble about whether or not the economy is in a recession when to me it is quite obvious that the economics of the household are already in a recession. I'm guessing this started about a year ago. Times are tight. With any forsight, someone would have been able to see this was going to happen definitively 10 years ago.

So what happened? Globalization. Not the kind of internationalism with interest of people at heart, but instead it was globalization in a technical sense that allows world markets to play out for the profit of stockholders. Companies were able to move their businesses out of dodge and exploit workers in other countries rather than keeping business in the US where labor laws, unions, and a comparatively closed system hindered profits.

Corporations have continually spewed porpaganda claiming that people of the world would be brought "up" to the economic status of people in the US. However, with the exception of a perhaps a few people in China, many of the pawns of the globalization process, such as those in Africa and South America have been stomped down further and people in the US have also had a diminishing quality of life. Globalization deregulated industry giving incentive to multinational corporations to stuff their stockholders, fattening them up like thanksgiving turkeys.

Sorry, enough with the rant....Anyway, I think the standard living has gone down and Americans are trying to reverse this trend. The most important way people think they can do this is by using their albeit soft voice and vote. People have high hopes that this election will be able to change the downward economic trend the middle class is spiraling down. However, I think we are going to be sorely dissappointed.

Our politicians are paralyzed. Incapable of making big change. The current political parties are so entrenched in capturing the center, moderate vote they are going to be unable to launch any real change, certainly not the tough changes required to reduce the globalization, and the subsequent polarization of wealth into corporate hands. An old fashioned democrat might have been able to accomplish this change but not the sort of squishy, iffy, talking head types we have now.

4 years from now when the once cushy middle class lifestyles our parents knew are further pillaged, people are going to be pissed. I also think they will be enlightened, a little desperate and certainly ripe for political change. This progression will pave the way for a new political party. My guess is that it will be a party coming from the far left with liberal, socializing views and ideas. It will be a revolution sort of like the one FDR played a hand in by instituting social welfare programs. The New Deal renergized the population after the Great depression. I think after 4 or maybe 8 years of a continually regressing standard of living, most people will be ready and able to make real change.

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I realize this has more to do with politics, than with technology, however as an end note, Technology is a major, cause, facilitator and perpetuator of globalization.

Lastly, If globalization was perfectable in its purist sense, where as wealth and markets are distributed globally as a way to better the lives of People (not loaded Corporate stockholders), I would be all for it. I suppose I am just a little unsure how that would practically work?