Where are we going

Without speculating much and looking at the sequence of present events, surrounding America’s foreign policy and its stand in the global market of power, one has to worry, seriously, worry about the present and future.

Most western countries have develop a culture that has eliminated ingredients to foster debate and dissent, to support a social format that support a class system that is probing to have more cracks than the present obvious crisis.

America has lost its capacity to foster varied views and debates and has entrenched itself in a very narrow set of views, this views are becoming every passing day more evident out of synch with the needs of most Americans.

There is not debate about the present standing of a America. It is an important piece of conversation to have a national level, for all Americans. Out the radical view it is America’s way or the highway, that was true ten years ago. Now it is no more a feasible and true view of acting, the marines cannot bring more contract to Boeing as they used to, of to Chiquita Banana a new banana republic with a corrupt dictator in charge to exploit the local assets to be brought back to America‘s shareholders and corporate bosses. The Chinese, The Russian, most of the European Union and in some cases the African union, are acting that indicates America power is not absolute anymore and needs to be share in all aspects. So far they have chosen to use the power of capitalism to put the brake on the United States, as the Chinese did with the bond market of the European Union with they currency policy, or Latin America asserting equal trade conditions and renegotiating past (most Latin American leaders agree to qualify those contracts as abusive) corporate contracts to exploit their natural resources.

In the eyes of citizens of the rest of the planet, there is a consistent view of disapproval of America.
It used to be that the populist line was “everybody complaints about America, but all want to come to America” that was true until ten years ago, now what we are seen is a major shift, mostly due to economic equality. As an example, the minimum wage in Portugal is 30% higher than in the US, and in Portugal with the minimum wage a family of two can be above poverty level, and afford a decent way of live, in the US with minimum wage you will need both members of the family to work and still be under pauper conditions. Those are hard facts and the adjustment is spreading to most Americans, and it is not been accepted as a new way of life.
Among leaders of the same people who disapprove of America present standards, there is consensus of approval, but it is for a very different reason.
Each country has a reason to go against the will of their own citizens, the most interesting is the present position of England. The English government continues to be label by Britons as a lap dog of the Americans, but there is more behind scenes that the eye can see.
British ruling class by aligning themselves, what it seems to many blindly, with America, they are actually doing something much more important. British rules are asserting their economic power in the form of a new renaissance of English colonialism, by accumulating political favors. Those favors are getting cash-out in the form of corporate favoritism and American military support to expand corporate penetration in countries in which England can exert very little influence by themselves, but they can assert and obtain trade preferences by using America’s military and in many cases dictator rules under the control of America’s protection. The list of those countries is large but the most important are those that separated from the former Soviet Union.
Other countries like China are using their fast gained economic power to assert preferential market access.

There must be a national debate about how to confront the next years in a world that is changing their economic structures from energy to currency formations and technological development. America’s ruling class is failing to bring American citizens to a higher level of competitive advantage and the price to pay is going to be dear and painful.