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.
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.
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.
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