Please stay in your own country and fix it. In my circle of friends, there are 3 new couples from England - complete libtards. I actually had to remind one that American values bred a generation of people who saved their sorry ashes, a couple times. Didn’t matter - we’re all rednecks. I asked why they came here and the replies were all the same, “For the job.” Just once I would like to hear one of them say they respected our American values. 0-3 on my scorecard.
It's not that I'm denying it. I just don't like it said in an English accent.
Good post!
I think you have gotten hold of the issue in a way that is a little more useful than most of the thinking about GB and the rest of Europe that I read here.
For folks who are really dyed-in-the-wool multicultural socialists, they just can’t hear other world views. The liberal elites of GB and Europe are never going to budge as long as they can reassure themselves that their brand of wisdom is the only truth.
American liberals are facing the realities of national beliefs as they confront, after Scott Brown and the over-priced meeting in Nashville, the tea party movement. For months they belittled, scolded and minimized the movement, because it didn’t reflect their own sense of “obvious truth.”
In Europe and GB the elites are even more surrounded by a constantly reassuring chorus that everything is OK. They will not change their minds until they, too, have to confront a political movement that is actually out in the streets.
I only hope that Europe is strong enough for that process to play out without the bloodshed that has characterized European politics for so long.
Incidentally, your British friends (acquaintances?) will probably adapt to the core notions of American liberty in time.
some hints:
to explain opposition to abortion, say,”We love babies.”
to explain self-defense, say, “We share an American duty to assist in enforcing the laws.”
to explain aversion to the nanny-state, say, “We prefer to conduct our charity privately with our own money and our own effort rather than by confiscating other peoples’ money through taxes and delivering assistance through over-paid bureaucrats.”
My experience is that these lines work a little better than the other lines I have tried to use with friends from across the Atlantic.
And yet, a majority of American voters put Obama in the White House.