So copying a culture that’s been nothing but oligarchal and opressive to everything that isn’t in their oligarchy is good for a country? I must have been taking a leak during civics class when they were talking about the Revolutionary War.
Like it or not, this would have been our culture too if we didn’t free ourselves of the British and everything that was British or European. Europe, has been, always was and always will be an oligarchal, class concious society. That’s why even when they do something good like embrace democracy, it devolves ito mob rule with one class fighting the other for control of the country. European culture simply isn’t meant for Democracy.
Mexico and other Latin American cultures are curretly stuck in that Europe-worshipping mentality and their countries too are stuck in that European class system. The sooner they ditch oligarchy and move onto classically liberal democracy with a truly capitalist system, the sooner they will start developing.
As for Haiti, nothing except pure capitalism will help their economy. The only businesses they can get in their country right now are a few sweatshops. If the libs are so serious about helping Haiti, they should let Haiti’s economy develop naturally instead of giving handouts to that place. All handouts are doing is harming Haiti and other third world countries. In fact, you know you can live like a god in Haiti for about 20K? With that much money, you can kickstart the economy to the moon. The only problem is that the people in Hati have such a bad taste in their mouths from the French and other foreign natioals pretty much doing the same thing I suggested and using the local employees as de facto slave labor. They’re afraid of investors for that reason. But there’s no other choice for that country. It’s either they live perpetually on handouts or they become an economic force.
And to the Stormfronters that post here (Not you, TR), shame on you, you’re part of the problem, not the solution. There’s a Prussia Blue poster waiting for your lonely fantasies in your room.
I see there are a number of points that we do agree on. Haiti needs to develop a capitalistic economy and not depend on handouts, but they also need a different model of government. What country do you suggest they emulate?