Posted on 06/12/2025 6:43:03 AM PDT by Starman417
I started writing my Imperfect America blog in 2009. It’s my passion, despite the sad fact it’s never made me a penny. Not even on Twitter, new or old, where my account is constantly throttled!
My first post was titled “Racism, America’s Original Sin”. It was a response to the new normal of anyone disagreeing with Barack Obama being called a racist. In it, I talk about the 3/5th Compromise and the fact that it gave Southerners less power in the House than they wanted, but more importantly, it was the key to America being one nation rather than two, one free and one slave. I pointed out that blacks would likely have been much worse off in a nation of only slave states. The 3/5th Compromise is a literal example of the subtitle of my blog: “Perfect is the enemy of the good.”
Over the last million or so words I’ve written about everything from race to the judiciary to entrepreneurship to European travel and more, most from a conservative, even libertarian perspective. I regularly make the argument that Western civilization is the greatest that has thus far been produced by men. And it’s not even close. While the Egyptians built the pyramids 5,000 years ago, the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Greeks developed math and the Chinese invented gunpowder and paper, the reality is, almost every single thing used by most people around the world today is a consequence of western civilization.
For most of human history, life was brutal, short, and dangerous. For most today, it’s not. And there’s a reason. These five elements: Free speech, the rule of law, limited government, private property, and Capitalism combined to give humans the unprecedented ability and motivation to be creative and productive. And the results were extraordinary. Longer lifespans. More food. Larger and safer living quarters and conditions. Vastly more options for making a living and safer conditions when doing so. Cheaper, faster, and more comfortable transportation. Unprecedented communication tools and energy. Exponentially more information is available and accessible. Leisure time is something almost unheard of throughout history. And the list goes on.
But none of that happens in a fascist state. Nor a Communist state. None of that happens in a tyranny, or a cradle-to-grave nanny state. None of that happens when science math and human nature are ignored, and finally, none of that happens when there are no consequences for bad actors.
But those are all elements of what America is becoming. Families on welfare for generations. Giant banks and corporations privatize profits and socialize losses. Government regulation of virtually every aspect of life. Violent criminals let loose on society with slaps on the wrist. Freedom of speech is defined by those whose feelings get hurt. Merit taking a back seat to a spectrum of victimization categories. And this list too goes on.
But here’s the thing. No society ever prospered based on victimization and a nanny state culture where citizens turned on one another and the few worked to support the many. Never, not one. And no, modern European nanny states haven’t prospered because of their paternalism, they prospered despite it because the United States guaranteed their security for the last 75 years.
I write to try and make a difference. I try to showcase the fact that most Americans, indeed most Westerners, have lost sight of the reality that we’re living in the greatest and most prosperous time in human history, and more importantly, they willingly choose to ignore what created it and indeed attack those responsible. It’s not politically correct to say, but this civilization was largely created by white people, most originating in Western Europe. Nor is it PC to say that Christianity was the force that impelled it. And finally, it’s individual liberty, private property, limited government, and Capitalism that were the oil that lubricated the engine of advancement.
To the degree that modern America and Western civilization are making policies that are antithetical to all of those things, they’re killing the goose that laid the golden civilizational egg. And it would be one thing if they could point to an example of some place, some time, some civilization that was equal to or greater than ours, particularly at scale. But they don’t because they can’t. It didn’t work in New Harmony, Indiana, it never worked in the Soviet Union and it didn’t work in the 1960’s communes.
It was Western civilization and the United States that took men to flight, put men on the moon, discovered DNA, invented the computer, harnessed nuclear power, and revolutionized farming.
Nonetheless every day we’re faced with a growing faction of citizens who whine because someone else has something they don’t, because they’re victims of someone else’s success, that bad actors shouldn’t have to face the consequences of their actions, or that someone is saying something that hurts their feelings.
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Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded - here and there, now and then - are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
Ingratitude, ignorance, and GREED...
Only a fool refuses to see Truth.
John 14:6: I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
That's absolute. And any suggestion to the contrary is false doctrine. A lot of that on FR.
I think that the ingratitude, ignorance and greed are real.
Endemic.
So don’t get me wrong when I say, the source of the problem is external (foreign). The endemic social problems are just being exploited by forces that want to unravel our civilization.
It seems the more information is available, the more ignorant people become.
Ignorance is not shameful . It just means you don’t know. You can learn and you won’t be as ignorant. It’s the hubris of the young who think that they know. They think they know everything, including morality. They think they know right from wrong - and honestly their idealistic ignorance is kind of charming. Would that it were only so. Sadly they project this ignorant morality onto people who are very far from ignorant and demand those people (usually one side) abide their idealism. It’s not possible if both sides don’t agree completely, and yet the ignorant will get irate over the lack of change by the experienced. Even if there is change it’s not enough for the ignorant to be happy. Because they are ignorant. I was fortunate to learn at a young age, I need not focus on other people’s problems I need to focus on myself. Which is why I joined FR.
This claim is simply nonsense: Europe had much higher defense budgets until 1989.
Europe also acquired a much higher standard of living after WWII for the same reason the US did: US-style mass production became the norm instead of artisanal production and the post-WWII replacement or rebuilding of European infrastructure also greatly enhanced productivity. The Europeans also took the lead over the US in certain industrial technologies such as electric-arc steelmaking and monocoque automobile construction.
The US didn't stay engaged in the world to help Europe but decided to spend money helping Europe, fought to prevent Soviet expansion, and created institution like the UN and World Bank because it knew spending lots of money and the occasional small war were much better alternatives to another world war.
We seem to have forgotten that and that the cause of the last two world wars was a "multipolar world" with no rules preventing wars of conquest. I know the adage that God looks out for the United States, but I also know the adage about not tempting the Lord thy God too much.
Yep. Label Barack Hussein Obama as a (an apostate) Muslim Foreign Agent here to Disrupt, Destroy, Sandbag, and Cripple America and Corrupt American Culture.
Then, EVERYTHING he did, does or doesn’t do makes complete sense.
I saw what he was in 2008 and he has lived up to my expectations.
AND barely 7 years after 09/11/2001.
Both
The culture was rotting
This false prophet showed up and enhanced the cancer
Look at how stupid half of our population has been since he showed up
He’s a smooth-talking false prophet of the Devil and Satan
Yes. What you say is Truth.
I’ve said this since mid 80s
The black spot of Nazism and the latter Klans tied our hands for too long
It has been auch a hammer against any defense of white Christian nationalism or western civilization in general
It’s fading a bit now
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