Going Along to Get Along Got Us Here

Progress is a dialectical process. Opposites confront each other until eventually creating a synthesis of the opposites. A new thing takes the place of the opposites. Then, a new opposite arises to confront the synthesis, and the process begins again.


In government, the opposites arise around how to use government to support society. Traditionally, one side seeks to empower plutocrats, aristocrats, monarchs, families, senators, or dictators. The other seeks to empower people (small "d" democratic).


In the 1950s, 60s, and even for part of the 70s, the synthesis was built around the small "d" model, specifically around needs of the middle class. As a result, the free world prospered like at no other period of history. 


Since 1976, when the first year in a string of 35 years of trade deficits began, a synthesis has formed around the needs of banksters and MNCs, the plutocrats. This synthesis was similar to what happened after the Wilson administration, beginning in the 1920s. As a result, prosperity began to falter.


What most people don't understand is, we are living the results of that synthesis begun in 1976. This is what both the Dems and GOP decided was the right way to go, with most of the compromise coming in one direction, from Dems to GOP.


What's more, this synthesis has happened all over the free world. The only point of dispute now seems to be just how much to eviscerate the rest of society to support the banksters and MNCs.


The politicians have decided this will be the model for life in the 21st century. 
Not having real opposition to elitism is what got us here. Going along to get along got us here.









--- What was the original American Aurora? The Aurora was a newspaper published by Benjamin Franklin Bache , a grandson of Benjamin Franklin. The Aurora was published in Philadelphia, our nation's capitol at the time.

The Aurora was highly critical of what Bache felt was the tyrannous Federalist governments of presidents Washington and Adams.

The result? Adams imprisoned Bache for sedition, where he languished, awaiting trial, until his death from yellow fever at age 29.