We haven't really grown up if we fail to address our fears, stop name calling and get what's good from the past

People who like to see themselves as Progressive got a huge shock when the strangest of Presidents got elected in November this year .
 No Surprise to thoughtful historians like Brecht, Orwell and Ferguson
This adjustment should not be a surprise to any thinking person because the slack old hopefuls and dilatants are always at risk of dreaming too much as a consequence of their comfortable new rich incumbencies. The tax takers are now in majority and it's the tax takers who want things to keep going their ways. 
The obvious old target, that need for Marxist doctrine, "the Bloody Big rich lot " has gone, but not the driver  for it - disguised greed; there will always be a" need" for that hidden driver and for its nature to be hid. ."The Bloody Big rich lot "are no longer mining and big business leaders but shareholders and big wage-earners. 
As long as the teachers, contractors and drip feeders on the tax aren't seen, no one who can afford to buy the paper will realize that the cheque takers are the new rich and potential enemies of the poor. Yet  Marxism is still a convenient facade for the left and a very effective one for keeping all sorts of dark crap of their own making inside. True justice requires the full truth that most Marxists resist and the elements like greed and envy . let alone true productivity that are never digested in their ramshackle old joint.  
 Confusion - who really is dependant and who is productive ? 
The really dependant poor should not be left out ( if we really cared) just because the really big tax takers are now in majority.  You can justify anything with good intention, but if it's just them and us ( them bad we good ) talk and nothing works, the place is bound to fall over .   The confusion  results in phenomonon like total dependency , jobs not careers, experimentation without precision and ill discipline in subsidy and so on .The government meddling in  eco incentives is another abortion as its grown like cancer.   The governments technicolour yawn is out the door, and rightly so. 
Dumb ,half-baked or Smart -- its our choice?
And yes, as Ferguson points out so well, Trump's ascendancy is risky because we are always at war . And whether it's a hot war inside or a cold war outside , we can still achieve things if we are open and not stupid, but alert and vigilant.  Rejecting greed and truly facing need. 

Many of the new hopefuls come with concrete real world visons, and real world science in practice . This is a needed push back against the deadening dependencies ( and cynicism)  of recent decades; too much half baked untested incompetence and experimentation that does nothing to enliven the minds and hearts and actions of our young people : That failure to launch is in itself a very serious failure of my generation.
 
These strong reality checks have come before, and are needed to stop idealism, inexperience, patronizing and down right incompetence and fear from substituting for real world science learning , mentoring and inspiration. There are too many degrees and incentives offered and not enough on ground learning and the discipline of mentoring ....and our  Regions know this; The country is being starved 
We will not get competency through the screen. The key Conservation that works will not come with tyrants parenting us in oikonomia  or with  rough reactionary wannabe ideas of bullying or incentivizing.  Our resource rich and creative young people need inspiration . 

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