Well said.
The human race I think is in a debate that is related to the Bill Bill Gates' style confidence (on another thread) that as China prospers, the world prospers and the U.S. will be reduced in importance commensurate with its percentage of the population, and everything will be just great. What an idiot. Has he thought at all about the history of our civilizations?
We're in a debate about the smartest, best educated, best disciplined, most humane minorities forming alliances and taking point by force if necessary on the path to human thriving, or degenerating to majorities of anarchy, ignorance, cruelty, slavery, and brutal control. At its core it is a moral and even religious issue. It's been happening for centuries and it's going to keep happening no matter who we elect president.
One thing poisonous to America now is poor education, which makes a population gullible enough to buy into the health care myth, global warming, the "recession," and socialism, and lull them into not remembering the joy and greatness in full freedom of Americans during our first two centuries.
The solutions are actually pretty simple, as this article shows. The only problem with the solutions is that they don't promote statism.