Posted on 09/09/2005 5:05:06 AM PDT by TIADaily.com
The "blame game" after Hurricane Katrina is not really aimed at President Bush. It is aimed at America itself, which the American and European left want to condemn for its individualism.
The attempts to play the political "blame game" about the flooding of New Orleans are falling flat, with one poll showing that only 13% of the public blames President Bush. But it is important to recognize that the real target of the Katrina hysteria is nothing so small as the Bush administration. The real target is America itself, its whole system of government, and its distinctive values.
The leftists are trying to blame free markets for allegedly causing people to be poor. They are trying to smear America as a racist country that is indifferent to the lives of blacks. They are trying to blame America for being an economic powerhouse that refuses to shut down its industries because of the latest environmentalist hysteria. They are promoting a vision of America as a weak and corrupt nation.
The best evidence of this is the reaction of the overseas press. Some TIA Daily readers have sent me truly awful examples (see http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9548842,) if you can stomach it--and today's New York Sun offers a good, concise analysis from a correspondent in London, who captures the European left's orgy of envy and "schadenfreude," a perverse German word that means "joy in suffering"--their joy in our suffering.
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9548842
"A Flood of Schadenfreude," Daniel Johnson, New York Sun, August 8
"Once the full extent of the calamity that had befallen New Orleans became clear last week, Europe's professional anti-Americans fell over themselves to exploit an unprecedented opportunity to crow. They were echoing similar sentiments being voiced in America.... The real target was not Mr. Bush, however. The indictment is not only of a president, but of a people. It is the American way of life that is, in the eyes of many Europeans, the cause of all the troubles of the world.... America, for the armchair moralizers across the Atlantic, means lawlessness, injustice, ignorance, selfishness, and megalomania.... Most of Europe's catastrophes, though, have not been natural, but man-made: war and genocide, terror, and famine. In every crisis of the last century, the American cavalry have come to Europe's rescue.... This latest manifestation of anti-Americanism is a symptom of a deep malaise which, if it is not treated soon, will do greater damage to Europe itself than to America."
Other comments on Katrina by Robert Tracinski:
The real "Two Americas"
http://www.tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1034
Lord of the Barflies
http://www.tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1032
An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State
http://www.tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026
"This latest manifestation of anti-Americanism is a symptom of a deep malaise which, if it is not treated soon, will do greater damage to Europe itself than to America.""
BINGO!
Yes, the Democrats and their henchpersons in academia, so-called "journalism", and celebrityworld may just be repeating the Welstone Funerally.
Yes, the Democrats and their henchpersons in academia, so-called "journalism", and celebrityworld may just be repeating the Welstone Funerally.
Of course, one can point out that it was the individualists who heeded the warnings and got out, and the socialists who stayed put, expecting the government to take care of them.
It is the same kind of socialist mentality that led French families to continue their summer vacations while their grandparents at home were dying of heat stroke a couple of years ago: they all expected the government to take care of their family members.
No government, of course, can grow large enough to take care of every need of every citizen. It will collapse long before it can reach such a point.
It would seem that anti-Americans, looters, rap thugs and Democrats are all quite familiar with opportunity and hustle.
Anyone who blames the tragedy in NO last week on anything but the welfare state is someone who profits from the entitlement mentality and the dependency on government it creates.
Never fear, though, George Bush and the rest of his big government "conservative" cronies are on the scene waiting to write checks from YOUR checkbook.
Where is this money coming from? Our apparently unlimited federal credit card?
The enemy within. The proposed apartheidt of Hawaii, the Hispanicisation of our language heritage, and the race card, not just played, but trumpeted, shoved down our throats by The Black Caucus and some DEMONcrats, are all calculated to destroy America by chipping away at the edges and by splitting it open between races.
The Liberal agenda is nothing less than American destruction.
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