We want America Back.

The Teapot’s inarticulate call has trumped Obama’s professorial performance. It’s as if the Teapot sees the elephant in the room while Obama is doing his serious best to curb something he can’t emotionally grasp to stop it breaking too much crockery. Oh no that’s a bull. Anyway. It feels strangely reminiscent of inter-war Germany; a proud people reduced and made fearful by unfair reparations. The ordinary people of Germany didn’t start the war, they suffered greatly during it and were then required by the victors to pay for it afterwards; a three fold injustice creating a tinderbox ready for ignition by Hitler’s sparky rhetoric. Once again the Teapot of injustice is primed and ready for the right spokesman. What the people of America see is unemployment, un-payable bills, wasteful urban decay, and the wealthy and powerful classes untouched by this impoverishment. Their sense of fair play has been shredded and spat out by economic, commercial and political contortionists. At times like this a measured approach is not enough, their howl of pain only satisfiable by hearing another. I suggest that there are realities here though, far more subtle than a simple move towards Republicanism. There is a reality somewhere between blind, inarticulate emotion and pragmatic, self-serving intellect, a reality of truthful presence and honest, ego-less purpose. This is what the Teapot wants back, a change in the warp and weft of social fabric, possibly a Perestroika for capitalism but where a market economy moves towards a socially cohesive economy. Not a centralised Soviet style one but one based on the most basic drives of the individual. OK I admit it; I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about.