Change, Just For The Sake Of Change.

By golly, I haven't done any fear mongering in quite a while, so here goes. People are looking at the unrest in the middle east and wondering what's gonna happen to the price of oil. What about terrorism? What happens when countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and U.A.E. fall? What about Iran? Well that's nice to worry about those countries as well as the ones that are already changing, but what about the rest of the world? What about countries like China? Now there's the big kahuna. With the largest population in the world, the fastest growing economy and what else? And how about other countries? There are a lot of countries that are having serious problems with their economies. So, maybe they haven't been oppressive dictatorships, but with the world economy in it's current state, who knows what people might do? Look at our own country. We had something of a rebellion in the last election with the Tea party. It was peaceful, but did you listen to the rhetoric? The rhetoric wasn't all that peaceful. Whenever a government messes with the people and their customary lifestyle or circumstances cause change for the worse, people get mad. But what if those countries I've mentioned and a lot I haven't, reach boiling points? In the current state, it's pretty easy to find countries up against it. Economic concerns about debt forces a country to slash programs that affect the people, there's bound to be push back.  A peaceful election that throws out the old leadership is the best one can hope for. Unfortunately an electoral change alone won't generally fix this kind of problem. Promises made are hard to break without risking another change in the next election. Often an electoral change of leadership improves nothing, changes nothing. So, now. What happens if a country like China were to fall? What would a new China look like? Think it would be a USA style democracy? Likely not. Would it fall into anarchy? How would that affect America? Remember two things. They supply us with much of our consumer goods, and they hold much of our debt. We have a problem. On the one hand, we want other people around the world to enjoy the kind of freedom we have, but on the other hand we depend on stability around the world for our own stability. And the thing is, we have no way of controlling what happens around the world. I mean, we think we should be able to control change, but in fact, we can't. Feel better now?