LOST AMERICA

THERE IS MUCH MORE TO LIVING DECENTLY THAN THE ECONOMY OR ECONOMIC PROSPECTS.  THAT IS A PARTICULAR BLINDNESS OF ECONOMISTS.  JUSTICE FOR ALL IS AND WILL REMAIN MUCH MORE THREATENED BY REPUBLICAN OLIGARCHISTS THAN BY THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE.  AND IN THE LONG RUN, REGARDLESS OF THE DECLINE OF PROSPERITY IN AMERICA (OR AMERICANS' ADAPTATION TO IT) IT IS ONLY A JUST ETHOS THAT CAN PREVENT SERIOUS DECLINE.

ONE OF THE SIGNIFICANT RESULTS OF THE RECENT ELECTION IS THE PROSPECT OF MR OBAMA BEING ABLE TO SELECT THE NEXT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.  THAT AND THE FACT THAT THERE DID NOT SEEM TO BE A MAJOR FRAUD IN THIS LAST MOST MONEYED AND DESPERATE ELECTION WERE AT LEAST SLIGHTLY HOPEFUL SIGNS FROM A COUNTRY THAT HAS BASICALLY LOST ITS WAY ON ITS VOYAGE TO DEMOCRACY.