What's also unsettling is that the empire defines opposition to it as ugly and ignoble, while it devotes itself to increasing its own wealth and power. There is a hypocrisy there that pursues its own advantage in a mercenary fashion but demands that it be crowned with moral superiority at the same time.
I'd agree with you that alternative policies may not meet with success, but I marvel at how blind and stupid the empire can be. Imagine, now American conservatives have resurrected the philosophy of British imperialism -- as though we don't already know how that will end up.
We emphasize this or that fringe group and talk about how dangerous it is. Right now I suppose that's only natural. People are finding out that we are all a part of the same powerful, yet threatened, commercial country. We are all in the same boat now, sink or swim. But when this war is over we ought to give a little thought to where the country and the world as a whole are going and what is in store for us if we follow that path. Emphasis on this little dissenting faction, or condemnation of that small ideological group, ignores the question of just where the mainstream is headed.
Love them or hate them or just ignore them, movements like paleoconservatism are more important as responses to the mainstream and critiques of it, than as ideologies in their own right. Whatever happens to paleoconservatism, the dangers and deficiencies of globalization remain and we ignore them at our peril.