Economy and jobs will win for neither party

If there is one bipartisan mantra, it is that economy and jobs are the issues that will decide 2012. This is a silly assumption. Neither party is close to dealing with the truth. The truth is that we are at the start of a fifty year struggle to extricate ourselves from the grip of the oil economy and all of its tendrils that stretch everywhere around the globe. Moving beyond the oil economy will mean deciding for or against a continuation of the economic polarization it has helped create. It will mean a process of selecting among different choices for how we will create and structure the cities of the future. It will mean a massive commitment to the reeducation and recalibration of a workforce that has no future in the oil economy and the fields that relate to it which include the creation and maintenance of urban sprawl. None of this comes into the current political discourse which revolves around recovering the very economy that is no longer viable.. The candidate  who is honest about all this may not win but he or she will be right and events will confirm it.
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