USA is facing the serious problems of runaway public debt, overstretched army, and especially political machinery which is unable to effectively deal with the above problems.
Some countries and empires, at this stage of their evolution, got to be led by a strongman (dictator). The dictator was either someone who rose inside them or someone who invaded the country (like Genghis Khan’s invasion of China).
In today’s world, the primary means of invasion is economic/political rather than by army force. Army actions are now blocked by the existence of the devastating nuclear option, and by public opinion. Soldiers, after all, are part of the public, and won’t fight unless there is enough public opinion backing war.
How would USA get out of the present crisis?
At 1985, Israel was going to have an economic collapse, of the kind that leads to dictatorship. There were calls for a strongman to come to power and put matters to order. Somehow, enough people of power were persuaded that something must be done and a new economic order was put in place and since then the economic situation improved in a big way (I am not sure that Dafny Leef and her cohorts would agree with me).
I do not see indications for such a political consensus in USA. What would then be a possible route to improvement in USA? The two-party system is notoriously bad at allowing real leaders to rise to the top. They must have all kinds of irrelevant qualifications, the inevitable skeletons must be well hidden in closets, they must be good looking and not be obese. They must be excellent orators as well, and not start their adult career in an unacceptable profession (Ronald Reagan withstanding).
There is, however, another route to power in USA. One makes a lot of money and leverages it for power in big Wall Street banks and other investment institutions. That person (man or woman) would then be able to pull the strings behind the stage and push for the right kind of political changes.
A difficulty exists. That person’s route to richness and power needs to leave him/her free of any commitments to take care of his/her Wall Street colleagues. So that person would not be obligated to cater to Wall Street’s special interests.
Of course, since such a person would not gain power by democratic means, it is impossible to have an assurance that he/she would in fact operate for the good of the public rather than for any group of special interests. For such an assurance, the political process needs to work properly – and this failure is the underlying cause behind the present problems.
George Soros, anyone?
A better and safer alternative would be a massive educational process, which educate the populace about political processes, how they function, how they are supposed to function, how to wisely choose leaders, how to properly balance relatively minor improprieties vs. major leadership and management failures, how to tell legitimate criticism apart from propaganda by special interest groups, whose interests are damaged by a good leader’s efforts.
