Some Green theo-politics from NZ

http://blog.greens.org.nz/2011/12/21/the-christmas-story-russel-normans-address-in-reply-speech/

Wells on the current crisis

There seems to me an economic process going on that tends to concentrate first wealth and then power in the hands of a small number of adventurous individuals of no very high intellectual type, a huge importation of alien and unassimilable workers, and a sustained disorder of local and political administration. Correlated with this is a great increase in personal luxury and need. In all these respects there is a strong parallelism between the present condition of the United States and the Roman Republic in the time of the early Caesars ; and arguing from these alone one might venture to forecast the steady development of an exploiting and devastating plutocracy, leading perhaps to Cassarism, and a progressive decline in civilization and social solidarity. ~ H. G. Wells, The Future in America: A Search After Realities (1906)