The Race to the Bottom?

Why on earth would anyone want to go back to the neocons? 

Do they want the kind of economic policy that shrinks the middle class even more and makes billionaires of CEOs.?!

Change takes time. 

The economic divide really took hold with the Reagan/Thatcher philosophy and since then we've been working in a siphon-up rather than trickle-down economy.

The extremely wealthy earn interest on our debts - that is their "work", their contribution. They do not reinvest in business ventures that employ people. They invest the tax cuts - promised them by the Conservative in return for political support - in machines that replace employees or in stock options to bump up the bonus cheques. They enjoy lives of influence and easy privilege while the hardworking person is scared to complain about wages for fear of losing his or her job, defaulting on mortgage or rent, or payments for that big shiny new RAM truck. 

Still, so many hardworking people vote Conservative and continue to support the kind of economics that breaks their backs while cutting their social services and other public benefits. Is it merely that they resent sharing social goods and they'd rather make themselves worse off to prevent sharing the wealth with others? Is it that they'd rather lash out at women or minorities than the real causes of their struggle, the wealth divide? Or is it they'd rather lash out at well intentioned middle class "intellectuals", calling them elitist? Let's hope not! That's the politics of resentment, the race to the bottom!

Human future - SWOT Analysis:

Strengths: Caring multiculturalism, innovative nerdhood, imaginative resilience, move toward local economy, sustainability, increasing environmental conscientiousness, increasing gender equality, increasing global cultural and scientific literacy

Weaknesses: GREED, XENOPHOBIA, quantophrenia, methodolatry, pursuit of means as ends, mind/nature conceptual divide,,  control of the press and government by plutocracy/oligarchy, anti-intellectualism - especially of Americans whose drivers dominate world economics/culture (for now), PATRIARCHY, geological/cosmological illiteracy, tribalism, racism, marginalization -> ghettoization of minorities.

Opportunities: Networked culture, chance to move to flatter social organization, astounding availability of vast knowledge, insight and learning, awareness of importance of women's empowerment for social health, acclimatization and accommodation of difference as a human tendency.

Threats: PLUTOCRACY, OLIGARCHY,  manipulation of the government and press by aforesaid, the blind reaction to go to caricatures of antiquated governance models based on insecurity or a false belief that the fault of modernity is that it has lost its sense of tradition (versus a genuine understanding  of hegemonic powers that drive decay), hubristic anthropocentric failure to overcome nature/mind divide, PROMETHEANISM (the idea that human techno-mechanical prowess will inevitably surmount all threats and weaknesses), economy premised on disposability/waste; idea of progress as "efficiency and economic growth" (since means mistaken for ends put us on a hamster wheel to nowhere and erase humanity from its own agenda).

So what would a sound strategic plan look like?