Posted on 07/30/2010 8:55:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
The left has always been too stupid to realize that our powerful capitalist economy funded our powerful military, which made it possible for the United States to have a major influence on world events.
You have got that right
Oooh, a Tolkien allusion! Here's to the downfall of the Dark Tower!
Perhaps we truly are exceptional. Perhaps the idea of American exceptionalism is true. In that case perhaps we can come back from this, take back the country, and continue to live in prosperity and freedom with a better life bequethed to our children. It will take sacrifice, risk, and hard work. This is the time.
If we do not succeed in taking back the nation, future historians will read these stories of Rangel, and Barney Frank, and Clinton, and Obama, in the same way and with the same attitude that we today read about Nero, Caligula and Tiberius and the panoply of Senators and the Roman elite of their eras.
I’m reminded about something I once read about the Cheetah: you could amputate all four of a Cheetah’s limbs and its muscular strength could still propel it along the ground at approximately 30 miles per hour.
Let's hope America goes the way of the English, not the Russians or the French, but there are people in the world who would love to guillotine Americans or line them up before firing squads regardless of what Americans may do.
Empires fall because of economic failure, but U.S. decadence became obvious in the 1960's when the spoiled, overindulged children of the self-reliant men and women who prevailed over the Great Depression, World Wars I and II, and the conquest of the American wilderness launched the Hippie Revolution--a revolution whose purpose was self-indulgence and pleasure and a repudiation of the values that had made the United States the greatest, richest, and most just nation in the history--despite its claims to moral relevance by including the highly admirable demands for racial equality.
Such claims of moral loftiness were merely a camouflage for the real reason for the Hippie Revolution: self-indulgence.
Today the Left and the Democrat Party have inherited the Hippie Revolution. Some are still under the delusion that they have some kind of moral authority though all of america has embraced racial equality.
The mendacity of the American press--open disregard for lawlessness--expansion of government burocracy--not to mention a national debt poised to exceed the gross domestic product--all the signs of American Decadence are extensions of the Hippie Revolution of the 1960's and its followers, viz. The Left.
Make no mistake--there are people right now watching and waiting for a chance to seize control of the United States--who imagine themselves as contemporary versions of Roman Emperors. There always have been, but today they see a real possibility of success.
Leftists would probably support such a takeover--just as the Roman mob supported Julius Caesar.
The first Roman Emperor--Caesar Augustus--was horrible--the next was Tiberius, who was much more horrible--the next was Caligula--and Nero was soon to follow.
I keep coming back to this quote from Mike Vanderboegh:
This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.
But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.
And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.
Mike Vanderboegh “The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the “Socialism of Imbeciles” and Refusing to Submit”
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I can’t find the full essay. Do you happen to know where it was originally published or resides?
I share your opinion of the self-indulgent hippies but disagree on the supposedly great generations of the Depression and World War II. It was that exact generation that gave us Franklin Roosevelt’s endless reign and took us much farther down the path to destruction.
Codevilla’s American Ruling Class is a long article, but it is simply MUST reading for conservatives and very much worthwhile.
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print
If you haven’t already read it, set aside an hour or so and read Codevilla’s essay.
The idea of Codevilla’s essay — the conflict between the ruling Court class and the ruled Country class — is not new. The original idea dates back to the 19th-century French classical liberal economists JB Say and Frederic Bastiat, and several classical liberal French historians, Charles Comte, Charles Dunoyer, and Augustin Thierry. (The original, classical meaning of liberal was about 180 degrees opposite of its modern meaning.) Codevilla’s contribution is to identify correctly and completely the constituents of the American ruling class, which includes the leadership of the Republican Party as well as the entirety of the Democrat Party. Codevilla’s assessment of the dismal American situation uses libertarian class analysis that is identical with developed by the these French liberal radicals. To see this for yourself, compare Richman’s article titled Libertarian Class Analysis, http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0606b.asp which summarizes 19th-century libertarian class analysis, with Codevilla’s updated analysis of the American Ruling Class.
The Left understands that very well actually. Hence the never ending war on the economy.
The Greatest Generation meme is nonsense — virtually every living member of the Greatest Generation has been a ward of the state for at least a decade, dependent upon the government’s largesse in the form of Social Security payments, Medicare, Medicaid and other welfare benefits. It was the so-called Greatest Generation that transformed a republic of self-reliant Americans to a welfare state.
But one could go back to Wilson who introduced the income tax, Prohibition, the Federal Reserve, Federal racial segregation mandates, and world war with weapons of mass destruction to American history.
Or, one could go back to Teddy Roosevelt who first declared the the US should act as the world’s policeman, celebrated the glories of war, and introduced the idea of eugenics to the American political discussion among other things.
Or to the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who presided over the slaughter of over 600,000 Americans, suspended habeas corpus, abrogated freedoms of speech and press, and introduced conscription to America.
Or to His Rotundity, John Adams, who signed the Alien and Sedition Acts which, if still in force, would subject virtually every poster at FreeRepublic to fines and imprisonment.
Or even to George Washington, who thought that some men could rightfully own other men as chattel property.
There has been a lot of rationalization of evil by the American ruling class and it goes back to almost the beginning of American history. The conflict between today’s ruling Court class and the ruled Country class has waxed and waned since the founding. The most significant lasting improvement was the elimination of slavery.
Hussein has hired a few of them. Cass Sunstein and Dr. Death Berwick would happily thin out the conservative population.
I demand that you show clear evidence a factual basis for your claim for I consider it vile calumny.
Good post. Thanks.
I guess this is where we discover if there really is such a thing as "American Exceptionalism".
The part the left doesn’t understand is that without the military, a nation has little influence. They are really idiot enough to believe that they can talk, talk, talk their enemies to death, à la modern day Europe.
In reality, when all is said and done, the entity willing to use force will call the shots.
The Hero Generation generally refers to the people who came of age during the Great depression and WW-II. For the most part, they are NOT responsible for electing FDR in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944. The vast majority of voters for those elections were older generations.
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