...and further more

To add to my further prediction of the rise in American Nationalism; the irresponsibility of the Free Market.

It is market, err, profit driven, and does not very good care about equality or human rights.

We need to get off of the growth oriented market driven 'equality by ambition' bandwagon, and strive to be a Social Democracy and less of a Free Market only one.

To that end, we very well may see the kind of protectionism we had in the past - for we wield a power that is truly frightful - the ability to re-order the global economy by becoming less global centric and bringing protectionism back on.

We have two real choices in this increasingly anti-American era - become ever more imperialistic and more hated, while losing jobs and wealth to unfair free markets (like China), or closing off the world just a bit by taxing or even blocking trade with much of it.

We are way too easy with our trade policy and our global defence force for others, and created a bunch of spolied, whiney petty Allies, a bunch of Allies, by the way, whose heritage and past we somehow bear the mantle for, and are thus the target of the Allies' traditional enemies.

The Middle East was made a friggin mess by the Europeans, and we are left cleaning up that mess.

Do we really want to help Europe?

We should give them their Spines back by withdrawing the loan of ours.