We are reaping what we sowed. It is really not that hard to understand. When you have a two-dimensional system to control a three-dimensional economic society, one can expect things to go wrong — actually quite frequently. This story by Reich fits it to a T.
That the US is so powerful, economically, is because we have multiplied our two-dimensional political controls 50 times over (plus Fed and local levels). Therefore, the success in one state is quickly copied by at least ten other states. It is as if the two-dimensional setting doesn’t matter because the third direction is indeed possible. The success just doesn’t happen because of the controls; it happens in the field (but imperfectly so and it won’t last because the rest of the world is already galloping faster than we are).
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So let’s talk about the real kicker. If the economy is seen as a horse, then our chosen political jockeys are all red or blue. Red and blue horse jockeys will not address green, yellow and orange economic needs well. They’ll make the horses go per their monochromatic visions; they willl ignore the other needs unless the uproar is quite obvious.
And that’s where we are today. We have two political sides that are listening to two tremendous uproars coming from society. The horse jockeys are doing what they can, but they don’t see the big picture in all its colors.
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There is a way out. In The American Truth, one can read that the US Constitution demands the better system is put in place, today. The larger context is that the US Constitution also provides powers to Fed and State to do more as they see fit. However, the local-level governments are acting as if they were given these powers, too. They were not. The scheme below shows the setup:
We can work our way toward a full-color democracy for our full-color economic realities, one step at a time. We better do it, because the rest of the world has become
A/ More democratic.
B/ More economically savvy.
C/ Angrier at the US.
If we don’t move toward having better jockeys, we will receive the brunt of our inaction. What we are doing today was fine in the 18th and 19th century. We should have had an upgrade in the 20th century, but didn’t. This is the 21st century. We don’t want horse jockeys from the 18th century.
Alright, let’s finish this up with a joke:
A good joke, but displaying how our democracy works. We pick winners; we do not pick representatives that are representative of all human and economic needs.
