GHWB (rip) - one of the uninterrupted litany of mediocrities that occupied the Oval Office inclusive between Nixon and Obama. They were Neocons or Neolibs, only superficially distinguishable. They were all agents of the Pax Americana with its motto of 'make the world safe for democracy' but really meant make the world safe for American capitalism.
Globalism, free trade, laissez-faire, privatization, monetarism, foreign intrigue and military intervention . It all came home to roost in a moribund domestic economy; deindustrialization, financial rule, cultural disintegration, polarization of wealth and a collapsing world economic order. Bit of a disaster really. He struck me a someone who would look at home in a nautical outfit at the Kennebunkport Yacht Club. The Whitehouse was a vast overreach; but he's certainly not alone in that.
Globalism, free trade, laissez-faire, privatization, monetarism, foreign intrigue and military intervention . It all came home to roost in a moribund domestic economy; deindustrialization, financial rule, cultural disintegration, polarization of wealth and a collapsing world economic order. Bit of a disaster really. He struck me a someone who would look at home in a nautical outfit at the Kennebunkport Yacht Club. The Whitehouse was a vast overreach; but he's certainly not alone in that.