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>>Just today, thinking a little bit about it in a 'free' moment, I tried the metaphor of winds. Areas of high pressure and low pressure, causing winds, some smooth others like storms. Yes, leveling pressure indeed, but also de-leveling again. But I think that a big difference might be that wind has a natural cause and can't be regulated by us, where economic wind can be regulated.
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>Indeed, economics can be regulated. But as long as the politicians are well greased by the corporations it will remain a possibility only, never to happen.
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>Some say we have only ourselves to blame, because we elect the politicians in the first place. But that has been shown to be fallacious to those who think beyond the external appearance.
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>Some say we "employ" the politicians and can fire them any time. A good theory but all kinds of roadblocks have been erected to make that almost impossible.

Or it may simply be a matter of paradigms. The current line of politicians may simply still (or forever) be unable to think along the line that we're now exploring, for it requires the ability to shift paradigms and to think lateral. Established politicians have taken up a position and they often think that their voters might feel betrayed if they leave that position. Moreover, politicians only seldom are the ones who develop 'the idea' in the first place. Often it are university professors who write a thorough book that influences those who are new in the political arena and are in search of arguments that enable them to attract attention. I guess we'll have to be patient?!