Reblogged from Consortium of Defense Analysts:
Thought-provoking article by George Friedman on:
- How STRUCTURAL changes -- social (decline of traditional 2-parents family) and economic (restructuring of corporations) -- have led to the decline of the American middle class;
- How that decline will negatively affect the U.S. as a super power (merely asserted, without cause-and-effect elaboration);
- How government is not the solution; and
- Why the formulaic solutions of neither the Left nor the Right will work.
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This should be a companion to Trail Dust's post, "Why America must be rescued from the inside out". Since the decline of the U.S. middle class is in part due to the disintegration of the traditional 2-parent family, if we Cultural Conservatives win the culture war, we'll also stave and reverse the erosion of the middle class. ~Eowyn
