KnobbyWalsh
WTF?
Interesting reading is this book described in the link below. I had a thought today while reading it. The author puts forward the thesis that the new global economic "plutocracy," comprising less that the 1%, but even down to the .01% - way beyond the merely affluent - are today those who saw the world changing at a breakneck speed and took market chances not only in America but through out the world. Interestingly, great big and venerable industrial giants like Firestone tire - so established and so big - was eaten up because they did NOT change with the times - they kept their business model essentially the same and got eaten alive.
So the though occurred to be today that that is why the Democratic and Republican parties could be dying - losing millions of loyalists - because they're still trying to operate on old, tired paradigms and principles of the past and NOT adapting to the ever-rapid speed of the times. I'm talking mostly about their social platforms that might have been successful during the Post WW II years and a few decades after that. Think about how tired, irrelevant and nonsensical their "platforms" are today, and how rapidly America is changing on so many levels. How could their messages even resonate with great numbers of people? They can't, they're not, and they're dying because they refuse to change and, by God, "want to stick to their principles."
To be sure, the plutocracy still buys off our politicians, so in that regard, they'll probably never change. But the world is changing and there not. High finance figured that out and adapted and still are. The basic tenants of our political parties remain unchanged.
Moyers Book Club: Plutocrats, by Chrystia Freeland | Book Club | BillMoyers.com
Is the Two-Party Political System Doomed? A Look at Third-Party Movements
So the though occurred to be today that that is why the Democratic and Republican parties could be dying - losing millions of loyalists - because they're still trying to operate on old, tired paradigms and principles of the past and NOT adapting to the ever-rapid speed of the times. I'm talking mostly about their social platforms that might have been successful during the Post WW II years and a few decades after that. Think about how tired, irrelevant and nonsensical their "platforms" are today, and how rapidly America is changing on so many levels. How could their messages even resonate with great numbers of people? They can't, they're not, and they're dying because they refuse to change and, by God, "want to stick to their principles."
To be sure, the plutocracy still buys off our politicians, so in that regard, they'll probably never change. But the world is changing and there not. High finance figured that out and adapted and still are. The basic tenants of our political parties remain unchanged.
Moyers Book Club: Plutocrats, by Chrystia Freeland | Book Club | BillMoyers.com
Is the Two-Party Political System Doomed? A Look at Third-Party Movements
