Great post and great analysis. The world has been playing chess against us, and too many in America don't recognize this. We are all too willingly self destructing.
There was a lot of talk about energy independence during the 2008 campaign, but all we have over a year later is a Cap and Trade bill based on very questionable science. We need to judiciously develop more of our own oil production, and begin a Manhattan project-type American program to develop new energy sources and energy independence. If the world erupted into global conflict tomorrow, windmills and solar panels would not save us.
Simultaneously, and closely corresponding to the revolution in Russia in 1917, the Communists have been steadily spreading their doctrine and control over the world. In the USA they have been slowly and incrementally moving into the levers of power. That includes the media, the entertainment industry, the education system, many wealthy foundations (usually founded by successful Capitalists and entrepreneurs and later slowly taken over by the Left), the labor unions including government employees and teachers association, and the main political parties (They already control the Democrat Party). In 1963 a Congressman read a document on the floor of the House of Representatives obtained from the USSR and entitled Communist Goals. It says all of what I have said and more.
Do a search for Communist Goals and read it for yourself. There are several iterations but the original had 45 goals listed.
Then do a search for The Frankfurt School and learn how they went about achieving their goals. A good adjunct would be to read Saul Allinsky’s Rules for Radicals to see specific tactics. Those tactics are in play every day and many of those in the Obama administration are acolytes of that movement.
Also see anything David Horowitz does. His parents were dedicated Communists and he was a radical activist in his youth and early adulthood. He wrote a book about the coordination between the Communist and the radical Muslims entitled An Unholy Alliance. He has Front Page Magazine and Discovering the Networks on the internet.
As far as the ME oil - we have plenty of oil, natural gas and coal right here, right now. We only need to use it. Nuclear power can also help us become independent. You can rest assured that after we have done that if there is something better and cheaper an American entrepreneur will come up with it.
Who stopped our use of our own natural resources and nuclear power? The Communist environmental activists who find their home in the Communist Party USA and the Democrat Party are the ones. In addition, as I said, the Communists have taken over the Democrat Party. National Healthcare and AGW are a continuation of their efforts.
National Healthcare will allow them to dictate your entire life from what you eat, how much you exercise, whether you live a “healthy lifestyle” like drinking, smoking, drugs, etc., and even if there is a gun in your home.
Their justification - they are paying for your health care.
AGW legislation will allow them to control all industrial and business activity to assure they are not “polluting” in the broadest sense of the word.
What is the natural result of the actions and legislation of the Left? Severely restricting the economic competitiveness of the USA, severely restricting the freedom and independence of U.S. citizens, sowing discord and uncertainty among various groups, silencing us with political correctness made more severe by hate crimes, etc., are the intended results of the actions of the Left. They will say they are unintended consequences but just look at what they have done and even a Democrat can see the natural outcome.
What would be the situation with lightly regulated Free Enterprise as described by our founders? Cheap energy, cheap gasoline, a multitude of choices of automobiles, appliances, gadgets, guns, a robust U.S. economy with busy factories churning out more and more useful products which get cheaper with time, mass production and productivity increases. A free and reasonably satisfied citizenship working harmoniously toward an even greater America in a freer and safer world.
Unleash America and her citizens and get out of the way!
In actuality, this 'chess game' has been engineered by the globalist elite, and they have made America take the fall by design.
William Guy Carr, Pawns in the Game (1958)
Bookmark and read it carefully.