America Headed To Socialism?!?
Alexandre Adler, one of France’s foremost historians and strategic thinkers - often characterized as a French ‘neocon’ - thinks that America is embarked on a path toward a much more ‘Socialist’ future.
Adler implies a watershed will be the 2008 Presidential election and describes Barack Obama’s ideas as an increasingly extensive redistribution by the state including a considerable expansion of government benefits. Adler writes in an article in Le Figaro he expects America’s shift toward socialism to over shadow “Past nationalizations like that under [former French Socialist President Francois] Mitterand [in 1981] will look like small potatoes.”
Adler points to the U. S. takeover and ownership of investment banks as evidence that “the system is finished, given the decline of the dollar and the mistrust of if international fiancial markets, which is what fiancés America’s external budget deficit.”
Adler says factors are emerging and simultaneously coming into play to challenge the way Americans live and produce. Adler is a Francophile and some believe that skews his theory. Nevertheless his point that “Americans, we know, are much less doctrinaire toward themselves than they are toward Latin American, for example” is worth thought.
If he is correct, in even minor measure, you should expect a disorienting swerve left – faster depending upon who occupies the White House next January.Excerpted and edited from a March 29, 2008 article by Alexandre Adler translated by Kate Davis.
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