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After following a link here and reading your post, I went to your bio to see which country in Europe you were writing from because of your clearly second knowledge of US politics. And I was stunned you were from this country.



To begin, I will forgo any discussion - however much you appear to prove it - about Harvard's detachment from the majority of the country. Instead, I will deal with specifics of your claims.



Your statement that Romney will do an across the board increase on import duties on all goods from China is simply not supported by his past history or beliefs. It also ignores the underpinnings of his campaign talk earlier this year about challenging China as a currency manipulator.



Now part of his rhetoric was, of course, to win support from blue collar workers in the primaries, but it was also meant as a signal to the Chinese that they would need to reform the manipulation of their currency to artificially low levels against the dollar. And without his posting a credible threat, he knew no currency reform would ever take place.



Since then the Yuan started to strengthen slightly and it reached a new high in early May just before China started to slip towards recession and the dollar continued to increase in value against all other world currencies.



And as Europe crumbles, the US dollar will become more and more of a safe haven, raising it further against most other world currencies. China's manipulation of the Yuan

will just be one of many issues and even if it does result in increased imports, the time lag on that will push any directly felt impact well into the future.



And nothing in Romney's character or background even hints at him taken such a rash action in a time when no one is going to be able to control the currency markets.



But your real disconnect from reality is your statement that Romney will take these actions to satisfy his Tea Party backers who were 'critical' in getting him elected.



However, the reality is that not only did Romney get the nomination without any support from the Tea Party - but if he does win, it can only happen if he gets the majority of the independent vote, a sizable number of blue collar Democrats and other increasingly disaffected Democratic voting groups such as women and Jewish voters.



Romney may have had to appeal to the right to get the nomination, but he will need to return to his own moderate roots to reach out to the groups he needs to win the presidency. And they far exceed the numbers of Tea Party supporters who might be willing to sit out the election



As for the rest of your scenario - I can unfortunately see many parts of that playing out -if not even almost all of them, though I do disagree with the military action against China.



And I do fully agree with your assessment that we are headed into a very dangerous period of history and that it is gong to take real leadership to meet those challenges.