A major part of the rise of the radical reactionary faction in the Republican party was the breakdown of the alliance between the New Deal Coalition and capital-intensive, growth-sensitive businesses, with Big Oil being a core member.
With peak US oil, the ability to make the market inside the US was lost, and thereon hangs a political tale that ends with a President who is such a lying hypocrite he would rather be seen as a bumbling buffoon, and an obviously doomed effort to establish a police station state on top of what is, AFAIU, the second largest remaining main oil reserve.
Still, establishing in a concrete way that "There Is An Alternative" (TIAA) is an important part of the white-anting of the foundations underneath the Corporate Oligarchs, who rely heavily on the Big Lie strategy in trying to convey that There Is No Alternative (TINA). I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
I admit I don't know exactly what steps to take in this direction, at this juncture, except, as you say, to keep making the point as loudly as I can that there is another way.
... and this part here, its not a hammer, its a bell. There's other parts of the strategy that might swing enough weight to smash something to smithereens ... this requires a bit more of a judo approach, using the weight and momentum (and therefore difficulty in moving nimbly) of the opposition against them. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
