At least, you have to be careful to separate a "standard" of living and the practices and relations by which that standard is achieved.
When we speculate on the end of the post-industrial reinforcing cycle of consumption, and the international capitalist organizations that form its tracks, it doesn't mean we are speculating on a return to subsistence agriculture. (Though I believe some libertarians and syndicalists, especially traditionalist ones like our Rhyfelwyr, look forward to that 18th-century dream.)
The ideas don't begin or end with Hamilton. The Founders generally were tempered by experience of government.
I think throughout modernity we have to admit that the best principle of government is determination of needs and ways by locality or subdivision; arbitration, expertise, and investment of means by central government. I just also think that central government should be plenipotentiary.
But that's what we've been indulging in! Capital invariably beats labor; that game has ended.
That seems to be the plan, presumably to affix Christian white male supremacy as the order of the land.
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