when famine hit and when the market was not the prosperous, abundance of wealth it once was, where was the insurance, the alliances with other powerful wealthy nations ready to send aid and relief. Oh yeah, that’s right, there were no alliances because the major powers were to waiting with wide eyes of greed and gaping mouths of hunger, eager to return the favor of conquest and ensure their prosperity, with ignorance to the foresight of the plight which would ensue there empire in the same way. I guess “what goes around comes around” (unknown). So where does the future of politics lie? I believe it lies in the next step in the evolution of our society. If I were to make a prediction of where our society was heading in my future, I would say that it is not towards anyone political ideology which we have studied. Rather, it is towards a global society, and the acceptance of our society as being comprised of social beings, and, to incorporate faith into the equation, the extinction of the capitalist dream of an accumulation of riches. By this I am not referring to a socialist, or Marxist political ideology, I am speaking of the next step in capitalism as being the evolution of capitalism to a global from, maybe that of a liberal socialism, which would disperse wealth to a global economy and yet not give way to total socialism, hence the extinction of capitalism. I believe that some form of our present liberal democracy, emphasizing the individual through the benefits and prosperity of capitalism, will remain as the engine of the new economy. I believe that my faith plays an unquestionable role in all of this. In the years to come, I believe that Christianity will define the path of the future of our society. My belief is that in my life time the partnership of science and religion will be the least of amazing discoveries. I think that the Americas are heading for consolidation, so that North, Central, and Sou...