Posted on 03/23/2022 4:17:32 PM PDT by MtnClimber
America cannot defeat Russia and China without the help of other nations. And America cannot defeat the Left without the help of liberals.
America is caught between an external and an internal threat. The external is an economically aggressive and America-hating China and a nuclear-equipped, America-hating Russia; the internal is a non-nuclear, America-hating Left. (As I always note, “Left” is not the same as “liberal”; in fact, leftism poses a mortal threat to liberalism. The greatest contemporary tragedy in American life is that most liberals are unwilling to acknowledge this and continue to vote for the Left.)
To use one of the Left’s favorite terms, the Left poses an existential threat to America. Russia, unless it starts a nuclear war, does not. I should add that I do not discount the latter possibility. I was a high school freshman during the Cuban missile crisis, but I do not remember anyone my age or among my parents’ peers who believed the Cuban crisis would lead to nuclear war. I am less certain today. Russian President Vladimir Putin does not seem to be as rational as Nikita Khrushchev was, and Khrushchev had nowhere near the passion about Cuba that Putin has regarding Ukraine.
The Left may hate Putin, but hatred of America unites the Left and Putin. Again, this is not the case with liberals, most of whom love America. To illustrate this point, take the example of Superman. It was liberals, in 1938, who created Superman, an America-loving, American values-affirming (“Truth, Justice, and the American Way”) superhero. And it was leftists who destroyed Superman as an American hero. In 2011, they ended his American identity: Standing in front of the United Nations, Superman announced that he was renouncing his American citizenship to become a “citizen of the world.”
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The left only hates Putin because the Soviet Union gave up on communism and liberated its satellite states.
The US/NATO are just another variant of the left.
China & Russia are an authoritarian national socialism, and the US & Western Europe are transnational corporatist progressivism.
It’s unclear which is worse sometimes.
In the US we have soft control, in which “getting cancelled” means that out of the blue, you become unemployable and lose most of your friends, while in Russia and China the government warns you a few times and then just throws you in prison.
“...economically aggressive and America-hating China and a nuclear-equipped, America-hating Russia...”
Doesn’t China have nukes, too?
And quite a few of the people wearing R jerseys are progressives, too.
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