Thoughts about neo-cons, corporate power and so forth

The neo-cons are finished in the states - men like Wolvowitz and Bolton kicked upstairs, Pearle an early casualty...it's a story of idealism defeated by the power of money, really. They were true patriots in one sense - they wanted corporate power to work as a vessel for national interest, not for America to end up the way it is now: a vessel for corporate interests with an empty treasury and a semi-wrecked military. But their ideals were sidelined as soon as big business caught the scent of a big payday in Iraq and Dick Cheney revealed his true colours as nothing more than a corporate stooge. The US can't carry like this and the neo-cons know it.
In another, more important sense they were traitors, driven by Leo Strauss' vision of America as a totalitarian utopia, taking its inspiration mainly from Plato's Republic. It was bound to fail; the US political system is driven by campaign contributions from big business and big business has no vision that stretches any further than a higher profit margin when the next financial year ends. The next government of the US will be more pragmatic, more reminiscent of Clinton's ideologically vacant, business friendly Democrats.
Sadly all the free trade voodoo bullshit will eventually crash the US economy and that will be that for American empire. Meanwhile China rises, proving that state driven capitalism beats capitalism driven state hands down. Especially when a truly totalitarian regime is in the driving seat.
I used to see the future as being dominated by corporations but I'm not sure any more. The love of power is more potent than simple greed. Difficult to tell if the neo-cons wanted power for power's sake in the end. Its all quite confusing.
I will now end this post in the style of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
And so on.