Political Balance
Balance is a key factor to sustenance of human society.
For example, in 1990s or in a decade after the Persian Gulf War of 1991, everything went well in the US.
The computer industry enjoyed great success along with progress of deployment of the Internet. The US could well compete with its new virtual enemy nation Japan, since the USSR already collapsed after decades of the Cold War. The US victory against Japan in the fields of the information technology and the money sector led to bubble of the US economy. Even the budgetary balance of the federal government became zero deficit. Wall Street businesses enjoyed an unprecedented boom.
But in the last days of the Clinton Administration, a big shameful episode happened in the White House while President Mr. Clinton failed to properly respond to a fatal and mad challenge from Osama bin Laden and AlQaeda.
Then the 9/11 Terror shook the US, resulting in the War on Terror. But while pursuing the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Mr. Bush let US businesses chase their own interest even in an unlawful manner. So, Enron collapsed and the subprime loan crisis was set off. And finally, Lehman Brothers got bankrupt, triggering a great financial crisis in Wall Street and the global financial crisis, during which even GM became insolvent.
President Mr. Bush is the son of Former President Mr. George W.H. Bush who represented the elite class of European Americans in the US society. So, American people got greatly disappointed at and disillusioned with those elite European Americans.
The choice was then for Mr. Barack Obama. American people wanted a new hero whose personal attributions should be opposite to those of President Mr. W. Bush. Mr. Obama met the condition.
So, to strike a balance between the miserable reality caused by Mr. Bush and their pride, American voters elected Mr. Obama as their president. Of course, 55% of voters were afraid that those of the same class as Mr. Bush would totally harm and damage the poor and the lower middle class of the US society if any of them should assume presidential office again. So, the choice was for Mr. Obama as president.
This is the state up to 2013. So, how would it change in the next decade or at least in 2016?
*** *** *** ***
Luk 5:1 And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,
Luk 5:2 And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
Luk 5:3 And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.