In /The Great Transformation/, Karl Polanyi says that the effect of the US Constitution was to "separate the people from power over their own economic life" (p. 233-34). The Fed, charged with US monetary policy, was/is nothing but an instrument in service to this end. IMO, it is not in our interests to "bring down" anything and leave a void. The lawyers who serve the rich will be on the spot as fast as James Baker III was in Florida to make arrangements for the Supremes to pull off the Republican coup in 2000, creating chaos in order to obscure regaining control over the people by whatever means it takes. Rather, our interests are served by nonviolently seizing legal power over our own economic lives, as the Eastern Europeans, Bolivians, Venezuelans, and Ecuadorians modeled for us. Until we do this, we can not stop the ecological destruction wrought by the free market. We in the US do not possess sufficient freedom to respond appropriately to our environment, i.e., to protect it from further harm. Until we do, the small group that is served by Dubya and the current wars (the rich) will continue their destruction of the biosphere that supports life on Earth.
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