Posted on 08/08/2021 9:03:04 AM PDT by rickmichaels
It was the land of capitalism, freedom, the melting pot and the American dream: its deep imperfections notwithstanding, I always held it to be a self-evident truth that there was much the United States of America could teach Britain. On visits during my teenage and student years, I was enthralled by the dynamism, the can-do attitude, the work ethic, the quality of life of the middle classes, the commitment to religious freedom and civil society, the brilliance of the universities, the romance of its great cities and the lifestyle epitomized by the homes and cars of its suburbs.
Much of what Alexis de Tocqueville described in his brilliant, premonitory “Democracy in America” in 1835 remained correct: there were crippling caveats, of course, but the U.S. was the greatest ever experiment in building a modern civilization based around constitutionally limited government, individualism and mass participation in wealth and decision-making.
Even America’s awful downsides, the hideous, shocking ways in which it deviated from its founding principles, some of which I witnessed first hand on an exchange program at a horribly divided school in Baltimore, appeared to be slowly improving. It was still possible to hope that the despicable evil of racism, the appalling legacy of slavery and segregation, were finally on the way out, that progress was being made, that Martin Luther King’s dream of judging people on the content of their character, not the colour of their skin, might one day be reached.
America’s other horrors, not least rampant violence, were also in retreat: the fight against crime was liberating cities such as New York and ushering in an urban renaissance, which other countries would eventually copy. There were other problems, not least homelessness and poverty, but lesser versions of these were hardly absent in Europe, including the French banlieues.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
We are not done yet. It may take another civil war.... but we are not done yet.
Has there been any human society in history that has been free of poverty?! That's an impossible highly set bar to overcome.
But even those below the poverty line in this country are living to a higher standard than many designated middle class in other countries.
Future historians will declare Biden the worst president in U.S. history.
Yeah, whoever wrote the article uses interesting catch phrases, but is extremely superficial, almost uninformed.
That’s the thing..we have hardly been defeated..manipulated
..sure
Sold out..absolotely.
Defeated hardly.
But now we have something we didn’t have before.
A clearer picture who our enemies are..and quite a few are Republicans
No time like the present.
I actually think they will find evidence that obama and biden were illegitimate.
You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.“The poor” is just another eternal talking point of the left; anyone who talks excessively about them while using them as a political prop leans left at best. Typical of people who assert the nonexistence of God.
— Matthew 26:11, NLT
The ideal that is the American Spirit has been subject to a great deal of tarnish of late, as if it were to be for the sum of its faults and failures, and not giving any credit whatsoever to the virtues conferred by the rights of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, as proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence.
Of course, America has drifted into error and unhealthy compromise in the past, as has every other society ever created by fallible mankind. But by the grace of God, and some levelheaded and sober reflection by men of shrewd good sense, we managed to form an institutional citadel where the best of human engagement is rewarded and encouraged.
But even in this very success, there are those who grouse and complain that “they never got a fair shake”. They would kick over the table and try to grab the pot for themselves, both a shortsighted and ill-advised move, to nobody’s ultimate benefit, themselves included.
The right, for its part, has also gone mad: too many Republicans have ditched their old principles — be it free markets, limited government or social conservatism — and instead embraced a dumbed-down, populist demagoguery on a long list of issues. Many Republican voters still believe, against all facts and evidence, that the election was rigged; on COVID, conspiracies have been rife. Trumpism could be the death of the Republican party. …With this, Heath shows his true proclivities, and utterly mischaracterizes who is on the “right” in the US. But then again, the RedTorygraph has always hated Trump.
Left and right hate each other: they refuse to talk, to live together and they don’t want their children to marry one another. Race relations are also deteriorating again after years of gradual progress, according to polling. …Another one that still holds to the vain notion that the left can “coexist” with normal humans. Leftism is literally based on hate. Heath’s sheer ignorance will destroy him one day.
No, because Biden was never elected as president. He was placed into that office by massive fraud on many fronts, by the Dimmocommies and by traitorous RINOs.
“In 1930, Georgetown was 30 percent black. Even earlier, in 1880, 5,000 African Americans lived in the neighborhood, many of whom were former slaves.”
https://georgetownvoice.com/2016/03/18/81548/
“In 1920, Georgetown was an “independent and dynamic” black community, according to the book. The neighborhood boasted six black churches and hosted black-owned businesses, black doctors, and black social groups. Because of the lack of zoning restrictions, residents could start up small firms out of their own private homes.”
[During the New Deal]
“dilapidated but restorable Georgetown houses became attractive for new white Washingtonians. “
“Many Negro tenants have been evicted so that white owners could remodel and rent or sell to whites at substantially increased prices. And as the white developers have moved into Georgetown, they have covenanted it block by block with racial restrictions to keep any Negro from returning.”
“In 1957, the year Little Rock Central High School was desegregated, Sen. John F. Kennedy bought a house in the Georgetown neighborhood. Attached to the deed was a restrictive covenant: the house could never be ‘used or occupied or sold, conveyed, leased, rented, or given to Negroes or any person or persons of the Negro race or blood.’”
Not only not done yet, but the doom and gloom is highly selective to Democrat strongholds. If you live in, say, even Democrat San Antonio, there are no riots, property damage, and if you go to a gym, blacks and whites intermingle on friendly basis as usual. The Dems and the Elites control the narrative because they control the images we see in media. Society is dividing by the sociology of knowledge: those who watch TV and those who do not. Stop watching TV. I don’t even own a TV.
Not the case with smart TVs. The left is trying to assert control, though, but it keeps slipping through their fingers.
Matthew 27:42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
I believe that he will be tied for last with former pResident Hussein Oboogaloo.
I actually think they will find evidence that obama and biden were illegitimate.
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No doubt in my mind, and soon Commu-la will become the THIRD consecutive illegitimate President, all Democrats of course!
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Ho hum...
ANOTHER shallow and ignorant recital of Chinese “talking points” by an alien...
The author seems to be unaware of the UK’s centuries-old “brain-drain”...
“Elitism” will do that!
Yeah, I caught that para too.
Barf.
If, in the mind’s eye of our Framers, there was an ideal President, they would have trumpeted our choice of Donald Trump.
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