Newt's wishful thinking, backed by the institutional power of America's economic empire, reminds me of the Catholic Inquisition's pronouncement that Satan inhabited Gallileo's telescope. This was the ruling class' way of proving that our planet was still the center of the universe. Everything would be alright if we'd just ignore them and put our faith into normalcy. Fortunately, we've come a long way since then. But not that far.
More recent comparisons serve up similar nonsense.
Newt's predictions mirror the arrogant superiority of the Chinese leadership making its futile feudal pronouncements. The good news is, current regimes worldwide are utimately only stones in the river, not dams. Aberration is flowing everywhere, it can't be contained, it won't behave, and it won't go away. Truth is energy, and it wants to be free. The truly intelligent thing to do is to channel and engage that energy, like a poet does with expressive language, like an enlightened parent does with her child.