The Democratic People's Republic of Tankiejerk

That's also why I think people are too quick to reject pax America. It's a locally stable region in which we can build. Reverting back to a revolutionary stance has a very real possibility of going quite far in the wrong direction before we can advance over the status quo.

Unless, of course, the path to post scarcity communism is just "21st century tech, 17th century population." Which I suppose is probably valid.