Conservative Progression-Progression: What Causes What?

by poputonian

David Brooks’ starry-eyed wet dream (see Conservative Progression post below) reminds me more of the nexus between the French and Indian War, in which England kicked France out of North America, thus ostensibly gaining control of the North American booty, and its connection to the ensuing financial debacle, which led eventually to America’s founding. The consequences were at best contingencies as they played out, but the connections in retrospect are inextricable: the war led to the the ensuing financial disaster, which led to Britain’s coercion of the American colonies in an attempt to refill her treasury, which triggered America’s resistance, which led to the violence, which resulted in the founding of American Democracy.

So who picked up all the marbles? In Brooks’ analogy England would have, since they started the chain of causation. But in reality the result of the war led in part to England’s eventual decline.
So who or what is it that will rise out of the Conservative Progression-Progression? After they’ve destroyed America, it sure as hell won’t be lasting power for conservatives.

For a succinct look at America’s financial status, see this apt post by Mimikatz at The Next Hurrah.

But with economics as with everything else, Bush knows what he knows, and facts (especially the fact that the cumulative debt will almost certainly double on his watch) are only for sissies.