Massive unemployment is a vital necessity to fuel the winds of change. But, what will those winds smell like?
Suppose we had 30% unemployment and our industrial production had fallen 40% below its level in 2000. Then throw in a little dose of the Shanghai and the Hong Kong Stock Exchanges simultaneously collapse. How much does our economy depend upon foreign stock markets?
Now let us look at a way out of this mess. What would it take? For one, it would take a charismatic leader who could unite the country. It would take someone who could evoke an aura of confidence and it would only take one achievement to launch a new way of life. If he opened a factory or industry that put 75% of the unemployed to work within weeks or even months, people would flock to him like flies to flypaper.
How long would it take before he would be unanimously installed as leader without the benefit of an actual election? Would people care what his background was? Would they ask where he came from? Would it matter? Would anyone really care about anything as long as he put people to work and the economy was getting better by leaps and bounds?
This has happened before. It was pre-World War II Germany and the man was Adolf Hitler.
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