"Failed State", is what they continue to repuke.

[Gman2]

The GOP has an agenda. The agenda is to get all gov out of the way of the citizen. To allow the strong, to advance, as they choose. Free from intimidation, zoning, law, restraint, of any kind, but partcularly economic. Let's analyze their druthers.
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Indicators of state vulnerability
The index's ranks are based on twelve indicators of state vulnerability - four social, two economic and six political.<4> The indicators are not designed to forecast when states may experience violence or collapse. Instead, they are meant to measure a state's vulnerability to collapse or conflict. All countries in the red (Alert, FSI of 90 or more), orange (Warning, FSI of 60 or more), or yellow (Moderate, FSI of 30 or more) categories display some features that make parts of their societies and institutions vulnerable to failure. Some in the yellow zone may be failing at a faster rate than those in the more dangerous orange or red zones, and therefore could experience violence sooner. Conversely, some in the red zone, though critical, may exhibit some positive signs of recovery or be deteriorating slowly, giving them time to adopt mitigating strategies.<3>

Social indicators
Demographic pressures: including the pressures deriving from high population density relative to food supply and other life-sustaining resources. {privatize all functions, including life sustaining ones like municipal water}

The pressure from a population's settlement patterns and physical settings, including border disputes, ownership or occupancy of land, access to transportation outlets, control of religious or historical sites, and proximity to environmental hazards.<5>
{Gerrymandering, and targetting poor and minority communities, to host dangerous and polluting business, is a long established pattern.}

Massive movement of refugees and internally displaced peoples: forced uprooting of large communities as a result of random or targeted violence and/or repression, causing food shortages, disease, lack of clean water, land competition, and turmoil that can spiral into larger humanitarian and security problems, both within and between countries.<6> {Katrina, Detroit area, are grand examples of allowing failed state concepts to proliferate.}

Legacy of vengeance-seeking group grievance: based on recent or past injustices, which could date back centuries. Including atrocities committed with impunity against communal groups and/or specific groups singled out by state authorities, or by dominant groups, for persecution or Institutionalized political exclusion. Public scapegoating of groups believed to have acquired wealth, status or power as evidenced in the emergence of "hate" radio, pamphleteering and stereotypical or nationalistic political rhetoric.<7> {Katrina, Detroit and rustbelt areas are good examples of allowing human need to be ignored. Cadillac welfare mothers is a good example of public scapegoating}

Chronic and sustained human flight: both the "brain drain" of professionals, intellectuals and political dissidents and voluntary emigration of "the middle class." Growth of exile/expat communities are also used as part of this indicator.<8> {The chronic and sustained human flight of the small town america, to the inner city or suburb, is adequate evidence, the extinction of the mom and pop is further.}

Economic indicators
Uneven economic development along group lines: determined by group-based inequality, or perceived inequality, in education, jobs, and economic status. Also measured by group-based poverty levels, infant mortality rates, education levels.<9> { This one is obvious. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting ever less representation.}

Sharp and/or severe economic decline: measured by a progressive economic decline of the society as a whole (using: per capita income, GNP, debt, child mortality rates, poverty levels, business failures.) A sudden drop in commodity prices, trade revenue, foreign investment or debt payments. Collapse or devaluation of the national currency and a growth of hidden economies, including the drug trade, smuggling, and capital flight. Failure of the state to pay salaries of government employees and armed forces or to meet other financial obligations to its citizens, such as pension payments.<10> {By republican design.}


Political indicators
Criminalization and/or delegitimisation of the state: endemic corruption or profiteering by ruling elites and resistance to transparency, accountability and political representation. Includes any widespread loss of popular confidence in state institutions and processes.<11> {Government is not the solution to any problems, they are the problems. Bush profiteering on NCLBehind, and war toys, are adequate confirmation of this being a republican value.}

Progressive deterioration of public services: a disappearance of basic state functions that serve the people, including failure to protect citizens from terrorism and violence and to provide essential services, such as health, education, sanitation, public transportation. Also using the state apparatus for agencies that serve the ruling elites, such as the security forces, presidential staff, central bank, diplomatic service, customs and collection agencies.<12> {This is obviously an aim of republican philosophy.}

Widespread violation of human rights: an emergence of authoritarian, dictatorial or military rule in which constitutional and democratic institutions and processes are suspended or manipulated. Outbreaks of politically inspired (as opposed to criminal) violence against innocent civilians. A rising number of political prisoners or dissidents who are denied due process consistent with international norms and practices. Any widespread abuse of legal, political and social rights, including those of individuals, groups or cultural institutions (e.g., harassment of the press, politicization of the judiciary, internal use of military for political ends, public repression of political opponents, religious or cultural persecution.)
Security apparatus as ‘state within a state’: an emergence of elite or praetorian guards that operate with impunity. Emergence of state-sponsored or state-supported private militias that terrorize political opponents, suspected "enemies," or civilians seen to be sympathetic to the opposition. An "army within an army" that serves the interests of the dominant military or political clique. Emergence of rival militias, guerilla forces or private armies in an armed struggle or protracted violent campaigns against state security forces.<14> {Blackwater patrolling and shooting in New Orleans, ending Posse Commitatis.}

Rise of factionalised elites: a fragmentation of ruling elites and state institutions along group lines. Use of aggressive nationalistic rhetoric by ruling elites, especially destructive forms of communal irredentism (e.g., "Greater Serbia") or communal solidarity (e.g., "ethnic cleansing", "defending the faith").<15> {Think about what those republican hatethinkers have in mind for the treasonous lefties, that tried to do all the things they are projecting, from themselves.}

Intervention of other states or external factors: military or Para-military engagement in the internal affairs of the state at risk by outside armies, states, identity groups or entities that affect the internal balance of power or resolution of the conflict. Intervention by donors, especially if there is a tendency towards over-dependence on foreign aid or peacekeeping missions.<16>





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While the imposition of a failed state is not exclusively a Republican phenomenon, the trend toward it, by Democrats, is the buckling of backbone, to enforced conventional wisdoms, imposed by Republican propaganda. That Government can do no good, is the mantra of the right, and expecially those, that want to make their fortunes, in Gov. Why would anyone hire one who declares that the job is not only impossible, but immoral? To allow a luddite access to the levers of power, seems to me foolhardy in the extreme. But it seems, that as soon as a Democrat staves off the failed state finale, we swing to those promising to take our stake, and run it to the moon. Only to spend all funds that could possibly be applied to social goods. Then, to complain that we have no more money left. And so it goes, ad infinitum.

Info on failed state gleaned from Wiki.

[Gman2]

1. Cant seem to edit. As to last wiki paragraph

Intervention of other states or external factors: military or Para-military engagement in the internal affairs of the state at risk by outside armies, states, identity groups or entities that affect the internal balance of power or resolution of the conflict. Intervention by donors, especially if there is a tendency towards over-dependence on foreign aid or peacekeeping missions.<16>
{ Rupert Murdoch, Blackwater flouting the intention of Posse Commitatis}