IT'S EMERGED THAT GOP PRESIDENTIAL WANNABE PRESUMPTIVE JOHN McCAIN HAS ACKNOWLEDGED WHERE HE LACKS clear knowledge of socioeconomic principles, notwithstanding his desires to further cut taxes in the name of socioeconomic stability and cohesion in the face of studies showing that same would cost the Treasury $2 trillion in just the first decade.

Put another way, "staying the course" on free-market capitalism with American characteristics as Great White Father and Saviour of the Lower Classes (in particular "chronic and habitual welfare cases***subtly conditioned to accept Socialism" as a byproduct), helped all the more by wholesale denationalisation of "non-essential" or "non-strategic" State agencies, institutions and schemes serving, more than likely, to profit close droogs of the GOP enough to further the danger of fuelling Fascist sentiment against the poor and vulnerable.

With that in mind, perhaps we should recall a warning from more recent history--more specifically, from the failed "evil empire" otherwise known and reviled as Communism--about socioeconomic complacency serving only as fuel for corruption and mismanagement: During the glasnost era of Soviet rule under Mikhail Gorbachev, it emerged that the tenure of Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet Premier (1964-82) was nothing less than a hotbed of "stay-the-course" complacency for State-controlled and centrally-planned socioeconomic development epitomised by Five-Year Plans and rigidly-enforced production quotas.

Said complacency providing nothing less than back-door incentives for corruption, mismanagement, fraud, waste, inefficency and shoddy production as were all excused as necessary towards the final perfection of Socialist Honour and Glory.

A complacency which Brezhnev's immediate successors, Yuri Andropov (1982-83) and Konstantin Chernenko (1983-85), sought to maintain for much the same reasons were it not for the Grim Reaper's hasty arrival in both instances--absent Billy and Mandy.

Such complacency in "staying the course" towards centralised planning, enforced production quotas and, all in all, overzealous State control and interference in the socioeconomic paradigm applying just as well across the Warsaw Pact/COMECON satellites in Eastern Europe.

And such "stay-the-course" complacency being enough to help hasten the demise of the Warsaw Pact/COMECON bloc with the emergence of democratic movements in the Soviet bloc, nationalistic movements in the several "Soviet Socialist Republics" as led to their reassertion of soverign identity and, by July of 1991, the collapse of the Soviet Union proper.

So what exactly would such a warning teach the GOP and their hard-wired droogs forever seeing free-market capitalism as the Great White Father of the Lower Classes and necessary to the defence of America's "antient and pecuilar soverignty and soverign identity"? Or are they the kind to willingly ignore past historic warnings, failing to realise they may be their own destruction (a "Fifth Column," so to speak)?