Posted on 11/15/2021 4:06:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
With Democrats quaking in their boots over the plunging public support for Joe Biden and the political party that sold him as a moderate and as physically and mentally capable of doing the job, the White House messaging team and their media supporters face an enormous challenge. And they are bungling it as badly as the rest of the administration is bungling economic policy, diplomacy, and national security. The gist of the messaging lately is:
1. Things are really going well; don’t believe your lying eyes or empty pocketbook.
2. It’s your fault.
3. All this suffering is in a good cause. You’re going to learn to like having less stuff. . First point: White House chief of staff Ron Klain, claimed by some to be the de facto real president, actually went gaslighting on CNN yesterday claiming that things are better now than a year ago.
“Well, look, I do think, as I said Jake, things are a lot better in this country than they were a year ago, with regard to COVID, with regard to the economy, but we have a lot of work left to do,” Klain stated. “And I think voters are in show me don’t tell me mode, i don’t think they really care as much about what I’m saying on TV, or what you’re saying on TV as much as putting results into their lives.”
SNIP
Third point: Here’s where they’re starting to say the quiet part out loud. Psaki actually admitted that high gasoline prices are going to help force you into electric cars.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It ain’t fiction, it’s here and now. Enjoy the ride.
Agenda 21 has been recast as the Great Reset and the Great Replacement. All of which entails wholesale slaughter and genocide on a scale that beggars the imagination and makes the likes of Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin and Hitler look like rank amateurs.
What are their names?
No, thank you.
BTT
A lot of the recent messaging has been we must pass the build socialism faster bill, which costs nothing, which will solve all our problems. It’s a bigger lie than you can keep your plan. I especially love their factoid that 17 Nobel prize economists support the BBB. Who are these dopes?
No, thank you.
That's the sort of attitude that leads to the importation of cheap migrant labor, the outsourcing of good jobs, the spread of soulless big box stores, and the death of small businesses.
America no longer a nation of Americans, but an mere economic zone; a Third World bazaar.
...that's the sort of attitude that has driven American Exceptionalism since the 1940's.
Claiming we need to consume less (BECAUSE IMMIGRANTS) is not in-line with American capitalism.
nobel political prizes are just that, political
This silly notion of "American Exceptionalism" is what has driven Neocon Nation Building.
"American Exceptionalism" is contrary both to the Bible and the Founding Fathers.
The Bible makes clear, no nation is "exceptional." All men are frail, weak, sinners and will suffer for their foolish decisions. When Israel misbehaved and acted foolishly, it got invaded by Assyria and Babylon.
Read The Federalist Papers. The Founders studied past civilizations to avoid their mistakes, because they knew that human nature is universal. They knew America was not not exceptional.
Ben Franklin said we have a republic "if we can keep it." He knew there were no guarantees. American is not exceptional.
Neocons used "American Exceptionalism" as their rallying cry for all their lunatic schemes.
Please, no more "American Exceptionalism." Give me America First.
Psaki actually admitted that high gasoline prices are going to help force you into electric cars.
When one discusses "American Exceptionalism", it is important to define what it means. "American Exceptionalism" is a concept that is malleable and has meant different things to different people at different times. We can summarize it to contain one to four conceptsL Neocons hijack the term the believe that America should dictate world policy and the building of nations. Nationalists, of which I (and likely you), identify with, would state that America (as envisioned and created) was a unique and special nation, imbued with heretofore unseen characteristics. A third view of American Exceptionalism would advocate that America should be an economic and military power above everyone else. And a fourth (and sadly mistaken) viewpoint is that America is immune to the historical examples of a nation rising, then falling.
If you reject American Exceptionalism, I expect that (and you clearly state) that you reject the first definition. However, I scarcely would believe you reject the second component, as described by Reagan.
Reagan's view on American Exceptionalism: This is what [Reagan] said to the graduating seniors: “I, in my own mind, have thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land. . . . Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, was welcome here.”Per the Biblical and Godly view of American Exceptionalism, Reagan's "shining city on the hill" quote refers back to John Winthrop, where Winthrope explicity states that deference to God is part and parcel of American Exceptionalism, and that the removal of that deference will mean the removal of God's Hand of Protection. Reagan, a learned and Godly man, would have known of the entirity of this quote and would certainly have agreed.
As he often said, this was a place people could come to be free and to become Americans, a place founded on an idea rather than an ethnic heritage, religion, or race. Lou Cannon, Reagan’s main biographer, points out that Reagan held this view throughout his life.
Reagan’s view of American exceptionalism is often summarized in a phrase that turns up in many of his speeches—a “city on a hill.” When he uses this phrase, he’s quoting John Winthrop speaking to the pilgrims on the deck of the Arbella off the coast of Massachusetts in 1630. But the full quote, which Reagan used in a 1978 radio commentary written in his own hand in the years between his governorship of California and the presidency, emphasizes that because this city is on a hill, it is open to the judgment of others: “We shall be as a city on a hill,” Winthrop says. “The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.”
Trump had a similar set of views of American Exceptionalism, and while I could easily post citations that demonstrate that, I suspect you would stipulate that I am correct that Trump's views were similar to Reagan's.
If you are an American Firster, then you are an American Exceptionalist, albiet one that advocates one or two of the viewpoints that make up the concept. Remember, if there is a NeoCon adherence, it is because they highjacked the term and adhere to some of the more objectionable portions of the somewhat malleable use of the term.
However, our conversation started with your rejection of American capitalist consumerism, and I am in opposition to that view. Comfort and availability of products and foodstuffs is not a bad thing, to my mind, so long as the nation gives gratitude to, and credits, the Grace of our Lord.
Ha, ha.
I won.
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