The clue is, France and Germany have moved to the right, so the bloody-minded americans have to GALLOP to the left.
I am never in favor of trying to emulate Europeans... staying out of their affairs is what made this country great, but we really ought to be able to take a clue from them about what DOESN’T work.
But, here’s the deal. The old commie refrain was that communism is good, but Stalin and Mao didn’t do it right. So, soft communism was tried in western europe. It failed too, so now they say, the only way it’s going to work is if the whole world is made to embrace it. And that’s where we are now, One World Government.
As Maggie Thatcher said, the only problem with socialism is that you quickly run out of other people’s money. In London the thinkers are re-reading Hayek’s Road to Serfdom. At the Bank of England protest on Wednesday I saw a sign that said “Who is John Galt?” The Neo-Keynesian response to the banksters is despised by most people there - the UK government is so broke, having sold all their gold, and they have outsourced so much of their economy to only be a service based economy, in lean times, things are tough. The people I was in contact with do not want government going deeper in debt to hock the future, and they are very angry about the bonuses and financial shenanigans. The UK would like to get rid of Gordon Brown, and as head of their financial sector he laid the foundation for the problems. The oly problem is that the Tories are still very weak, looking a lot like the republicans, having diluted their message of freedom, liberty and conservatism too much.
That’s brilliant.
They need to first get rid of America, the ideal, the exception. THEN, there will be no invidious comparisons. Everyone will be the same.............enslaved.
I think I just got all the tenses wrong, above.