re: #2 William Lewis

If the side of the angels can win a second time in a row, I will only be grateful…

I would also like to revisit your statement that the “angels” won the Cold War the first time.

The West won because the Soviet economy was unsustainable and collapsed. The state was no longer in a position to bail it out.

The only thing keeping any sort of human face on Western Capitalism was the fact that it was in competition with the Socialist model. Once its competitor was gone, it immediately showed its ugliest neoliberal side.

And it also collapsed in 2008, requiring a government bailout to keep it viable.

At some point it will collapse to the point that no government can bail it out.