economic status: due to accumulated wealth at the end of the WW2 (loans to economically devastated nations, the selling of basic products they could not manufacture, control of trade, creation of IMF/World Bank/WTO, breaking off the gold standard, etc. Those are not based on economic system, just economic opportunities that were exploited and why not. In the Clinton years, artificial pumping up of stock market, reliance on off-shores and money laundering that escaped regulation. A casino economy may accumulate cash but it is not an economic system in the classical sense. This model has been rejected worldwide.
political system: most nations prefer a parliamentary form of government with a few viable parties. We are the only ones left on earth to believe we are operating under a two-party sustem. As unpleasant as it is to say, we, the american public, are politically powerless under our one-party system, installed by Woodrow Wilson. Withstanding our grossly drafted propaganda, the world knows. The latest presidential "elections" could not have sent a clearer message and it was clearly understood.
power fading: the Euro comes together in a few months. It covers a larger population than ours, people far better educated than we are, with a higher standard of living, much higher productivity and far higher economic power (in salaries, meaning their redistribution of wealth is more effective and still leaves room for enormous fortunes.) Foreign funds that have been investing in the US for lack of anything else are now poised to shift to the Euro, from the world over. A lot of top investors lost a lot of money when the clinton "economic" BS came to an end. America financially reliable???Well...Then came sep 11.
GW has a great task ahead and I've supported him from day one. Now he and Ashcroft are trying to correct financial mistakes made in the last eight years. The fact that clinton was not removed has not been interpreted as a sign of health, neither nationally nor internationally. Of course, he and his crooks have damaged us in other areas as well. I for one will never understand what possessed the Establishment to put such an weak piece of sh*t in the White House unless of course it was the best we could do. If so, the rot is everywhere. If it is, Dubya better declare victory asap and bring the boys home. We have work to do.
One question that always comes to my mind when confronted by people with your outlook - If there is such an invisible hand controlling everything, as you suggest, why are they secretive? If they control everything there is no need to be silent. If they exist, why is there such conflict around the world? I suppose you subscribe to the idea that wars are planned and manipulated just to enrich these unknown secret folks. Tell that to Usama bin Laden.
I buy none of your premises about anything. The Euro will not replace the US dollar. Europe is so socialistic now that mounting any enterprise at all is difficult, much less free enterprise.
I do agree with you as far as the Clintons are concerned but little else.