19th September 2005, 10:23 AM
It was inevitable that China would be the dominating world power. Don't blame the democrats. That's just plain stupid.
And don't knock on Canada either. Many parts of Canada are much better to live in than America...
Ah--but it is the Democrats, exactly so. The height of US power came off the backs of great military efforts: WWI, and then WWII. During these times, the American people were wholly united under their president, whether he be Democratic or Republican: it didn't matter, he was to be respected. American hegemony was all but official in 1945, and it has continued to date... but it's slipping. I'd say it peaked in the 1960's, during the space race... at that time, there wasn't yet any dissension between the country, politics were left to the politicians to argue over. Americans were all one, and it's always true that a people cannot stand divided. Things began to change in the 1960's, and more so in the 70's. Dissent fermented with the advent of modern liberalism. Suddenly, loving your country and supporting your government weren't the most important thing anymore. The entire nation had, at one time, been behind the US policy of containing communism... thus, at one point Vietnam was as valid of a goal as the Korean War. But today, no one argues that the Korean War was a huge "quagmire", and it wasn't--because unrestrained by domestic, liberal protests, we were able to win it. My friend here says "it was inevitable that China would become the world power"... yes, it was inevitable since the 1970's, when American started to hate itself for being #1. Feel-good liberals, the new brand of democrats, started losing their belief in America, seeking to destroy our patriotically-driven hegemony. In WWII, what would have happened if the New Deal Democrats who loved America had been the Michael Moore ones of today? Could American had won WWII with the problems it faces today--? It was in the 60's that the new age of liberal thinking began to divide the country on large issues... abortion, women's rights, etc., which right or wrong, could only serve to cause conflict within our society. Liberals went further, pushing to destroy American industry with ever-more-powerful unions and increases in minimal wage (wage increases are a great thing, don't get me wrong, but not when the competing markets (China) don't share our fondness for improving humanity.) By the 1980's, the political dissension had also made American no longer respect the sitting president: Nixon. By today, the flag-toting, proud, patriotic Americans of the 1950's have become more infatuated with promoting their political beliefs than the general good of their country. Whether or not Iraq was just, the Democratic response was atrocious: fuck our president, we don't need to respect him! Today, there is so much anti-military hype, how can any foreign dictator fear us, knowing that his Democratic allies in Washington will keep the US military from lifting a finger? Such slander would have been enought to get one lynched at the beginning of the century. Suddenly, liberals blame everything on the president: even things that are very much out of his control, like gas prices. Come on now, what kind of stupidity is this? We no longer support our government, but seek to ferment unrest. Once a people no longer believe in their country or support their government, that people will inevitably fall. Democrats hate Republicans, and vice versa. Both sides are guilty of this. Bipartisanism in Washington, more than anything, weakens our national resolve and identity. As we go into the next century, the liberals hasten their dismantling of the United States' hegemony by 1.) constraining our military budget 2.) ballooning the national deficit and raising taxes to support their asinine political agendas; and increasing the waste of the ominously over-sized bureaucracy 3.) shackling our ability to use our withering military might by insisting that we take our orders not from Washington or from the values of our forefather and democracy, but from Europe, 4.) undermining our international image and integrity by allowing anti-American zealots like Michael Moore to make huge fortunes by pushing their backwards, destructive, hate-filled political hot air propaganda, 5.) subduing patriotic fervor by declaring that the US is no longer good and just but rather a rogue, self-centered, redneck, villainous state... and that as the only (current) world super power and therefore the trend setter to the rest of humanity, we should not be proud and strong as before, but weak and submissive to the international community. "Don't support our president", shout the liberals! "Support the presidents of France and Germany instead!" This sends the wrong message to our enemies. Suddenly, crackpots like Kim Jong Il feel strong enough to challenge the US. Naturally, when the next Democratic president comes in, the Republicans will counter with equal hateful fervor... and then constructive cooperation and reasoning no longer direct our foreign policy, but rather the petty squabbling of the bipartisanism. Gay marriage and welfare are fine in the imaginary world where there are no real problems to work on, but on planet Earth, there are madmen and evil foreign countries that want to kill us and destroy our benevolence. America has, for 60 years, been the guardian of democracy and humanitarianism, but with the internal division we face today, we're too busy broadcasting how much our president can't orate to notice that the ground is crumbling beneath our feet. In the real world, real problems need to be handled with firm action and unwavering force...THAT is what won us both the world wars, and lack of that is what lost us Vietnam (thanks to the advent of schismatic new liberalism). Needless to say, China suffers from none of these problems... not to say that China is a better country than us, because its not, but unfortunately for the world, its on the fast track to domination... being served to it upon a silver platter of liberal ideology.
I'm Benjamin Carr, and that's the truth.
BTW, gas is down to $2.69 here.
And don't knock on Canada either. Many parts of Canada are much better to live in than America...
Ah--but it is the Democrats, exactly so. The height of US power came off the backs of great military efforts: WWI, and then WWII. During these times, the American people were wholly united under their president, whether he be Democratic or Republican: it didn't matter, he was to be respected. American hegemony was all but official in 1945, and it has continued to date... but it's slipping. I'd say it peaked in the 1960's, during the space race... at that time, there wasn't yet any dissension between the country, politics were left to the politicians to argue over. Americans were all one, and it's always true that a people cannot stand divided. Things began to change in the 1960's, and more so in the 70's. Dissent fermented with the advent of modern liberalism. Suddenly, loving your country and supporting your government weren't the most important thing anymore. The entire nation had, at one time, been behind the US policy of containing communism... thus, at one point Vietnam was as valid of a goal as the Korean War. But today, no one argues that the Korean War was a huge "quagmire", and it wasn't--because unrestrained by domestic, liberal protests, we were able to win it. My friend here says "it was inevitable that China would become the world power"... yes, it was inevitable since the 1970's, when American started to hate itself for being #1. Feel-good liberals, the new brand of democrats, started losing their belief in America, seeking to destroy our patriotically-driven hegemony. In WWII, what would have happened if the New Deal Democrats who loved America had been the Michael Moore ones of today? Could American had won WWII with the problems it faces today--? It was in the 60's that the new age of liberal thinking began to divide the country on large issues... abortion, women's rights, etc., which right or wrong, could only serve to cause conflict within our society. Liberals went further, pushing to destroy American industry with ever-more-powerful unions and increases in minimal wage (wage increases are a great thing, don't get me wrong, but not when the competing markets (China) don't share our fondness for improving humanity.) By the 1980's, the political dissension had also made American no longer respect the sitting president: Nixon. By today, the flag-toting, proud, patriotic Americans of the 1950's have become more infatuated with promoting their political beliefs than the general good of their country. Whether or not Iraq was just, the Democratic response was atrocious: fuck our president, we don't need to respect him! Today, there is so much anti-military hype, how can any foreign dictator fear us, knowing that his Democratic allies in Washington will keep the US military from lifting a finger? Such slander would have been enought to get one lynched at the beginning of the century. Suddenly, liberals blame everything on the president: even things that are very much out of his control, like gas prices. Come on now, what kind of stupidity is this? We no longer support our government, but seek to ferment unrest. Once a people no longer believe in their country or support their government, that people will inevitably fall. Democrats hate Republicans, and vice versa. Both sides are guilty of this. Bipartisanism in Washington, more than anything, weakens our national resolve and identity. As we go into the next century, the liberals hasten their dismantling of the United States' hegemony by 1.) constraining our military budget 2.) ballooning the national deficit and raising taxes to support their asinine political agendas; and increasing the waste of the ominously over-sized bureaucracy 3.) shackling our ability to use our withering military might by insisting that we take our orders not from Washington or from the values of our forefather and democracy, but from Europe, 4.) undermining our international image and integrity by allowing anti-American zealots like Michael Moore to make huge fortunes by pushing their backwards, destructive, hate-filled political hot air propaganda, 5.) subduing patriotic fervor by declaring that the US is no longer good and just but rather a rogue, self-centered, redneck, villainous state... and that as the only (current) world super power and therefore the trend setter to the rest of humanity, we should not be proud and strong as before, but weak and submissive to the international community. "Don't support our president", shout the liberals! "Support the presidents of France and Germany instead!" This sends the wrong message to our enemies. Suddenly, crackpots like Kim Jong Il feel strong enough to challenge the US. Naturally, when the next Democratic president comes in, the Republicans will counter with equal hateful fervor... and then constructive cooperation and reasoning no longer direct our foreign policy, but rather the petty squabbling of the bipartisanism. Gay marriage and welfare are fine in the imaginary world where there are no real problems to work on, but on planet Earth, there are madmen and evil foreign countries that want to kill us and destroy our benevolence. America has, for 60 years, been the guardian of democracy and humanitarianism, but with the internal division we face today, we're too busy broadcasting how much our president can't orate to notice that the ground is crumbling beneath our feet. In the real world, real problems need to be handled with firm action and unwavering force...THAT is what won us both the world wars, and lack of that is what lost us Vietnam (thanks to the advent of schismatic new liberalism). Needless to say, China suffers from none of these problems... not to say that China is a better country than us, because its not, but unfortunately for the world, its on the fast track to domination... being served to it upon a silver platter of liberal ideology.
I'm Benjamin Carr, and that's the truth.
BTW, gas is down to $2.69 here.
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