[Nuc 1.1]

I believe the upper level dims know precisely what they are doing. The rank and file simply doesn't care. They don't care to understand. They will vote for dims period. The dims are establishing a defacto aristocracy. So, I believe the dims know their policies are destructive and the dims apply those policies precisely to that end. In the end the dims believe they will centralize power. All economic and political power will flow through them. And thanks, I am a right winger and proud of it.

[hopespringseternal]

All economic and political power will flow through them.

Exactly right. They worship power above all else.

There lack of vision means that as they draw all that to themselves they make it less and less. The Soviet Union was never more than an 18th century economy with nuclear weapons. Europe is full of stagnant economies at best.

Then there's the ones spending like we are and have brought themselves to the verge of total collapse: Greece, Spain...