If we did not have the raucous rabblerousing of the radical right politicians, then we would have something far worse.　 We would see the mutinous insurrection of the corporate leaders whom those politicians were supposed to represent but who deserted them.　 In the midst of and because of the crisis in the health and safety of our planet and economy, both our society and government inconspicuously, subliminally, almost unintentionally are going through a massive, unfathomable cultural change.　 Simultaneously, there is this suddenly emerging global economy and with it a transformation of international relations.　

All of the ways of the past have suddenly become obsolete.　 The ways of governing, conducting business, and dealing with other nations when our nation and all nations have become almost states within a single, global nation; all those ways are now obsolete.　 In an attempt to adapt to and master these historically colossal challenges, the US and the other nations of the world inevitably have had to transition to a tentative form of socialism in an internationally interconnected and mutually cooperative, virtually collaboratively governed, world.　

Groups like the Project for a New American Century, with their imperialistic and militaristic missions, are suddenly obsolete.　 The ways of our military, under the compelling influence of our defense industries, having to perceive other nations as enemies or potential enemies, and having to defend us against other nations by defeating or even destroying them, actually are rapidly becoming understood to be self-defeating.　 When our nation is like a state among other states as equals, then our perception of the US as being, or having to be, ‘Number One’ among and dominant over other nations is passé.　 The ways of our corporations, having to put profit above responsibility for the health and welfare of the earth and to disregard the health and welfare of their fellow human beings on earth, are no longer viable, furthermore they are becoming no longer a permissible option.　 Our corporations’ modes of operation of having to defeat or acquire their rivals here and abroad are now being seen as not just counterproductive but unmanageable.　

Now, truly, all world’s a stage.　 The raw material for this drama is this now recognizable factual situation that we are going through this rapidly confusing period of massive transformation.　 The rabid right politicians’ inflammatory and often seditious ranting, ironically, functions like the ancient Greek’s dramas that evoked catharsis.　 They have no power to forestall this inevitable transformation.　 Instead, they allow the anguish and frustration of the corporate leaders and many other leaders who are not on the national stage to have a vicarious outlet.　 As they allow these rabid ‘actors’ to beat their breasts and moan and scream for them, another group of politicians, the democrats are taking action in the real world.　

With the collaboration of their international cohorts, the democrats are moving methodically and resolutely along, albeit often tentatively and tenuously muddling along and often having to backtrack and start over.　 Nevertheless, they definitely are making progress toward mastering these unprecedented new domestic and global challenges. 　

When the dust from destiny’s scramble to survive has settled, perhaps some heretofore-unimagined configuration of unifying governing and laboring for a habitable world will have emerged.