My, how things have changed:
"Political scientist Francis Fukuyama was once the darling of American neo-conservatives. In a Der SPIEGEL interview, the author of "The End of History" explains why he now believes that the excesses of capitalism are a threat to democracy and asks why there is no "Tea Party on the left."
The interview of Mr. Fukuyama is an interesting one in which he discusses many of the obvious, and not so obvious issues regarding the current American political and economic situation, and just how we have arrived where we are today. When asked by the interviewer why his 180 degree shift in his views, he responds:
"We have unthinkingly embraced a certain version of globalization that assumed we had to move very quickly into this post-industrial, post-manufacturing world. Doing so, we forgot that the whole reason real socialism never took off in the US was the fact that the modern economy seemed to produce middle-class societies in which the bulk of the population could enjoy a middle-class status. They worked in industries that were abolished in our countries and transferred to countries like China."
The interview continues with Mr. Fukuyama touching upon how America has been hurt and possibly may never see it's manufacturing return by the globalization movement due to short term gains by the few, and with disregard for the long-term effects. In between he touches upon topics that range from stagnation of wages for the Middle Class, its resulting cause and effects resulting in the concentration of wealth in by the 1%, to just how the Tea Party which was started from honest grassroots, and how they finally ended up pushing an agenda that was is against its membes own interests, and finally getting used by the corporatists for thier agendas.
There is to much to write here regarding this interview, and I urge you to follow the link and read it for yourselves, as Mr. Fukuyama has had an epiphany, born from reason and logic, and one that I found very interesting coming from a man of his background and recent political “change of heart”. In the end, he asks just where is the Tea Party of the left?
I ask: Where is the outrage?
Here is the link to the interview:
http://www.spiegel.de/...