Posted on 12/26/2013 4:13:49 AM PST by IbJensen
American progressives like to think of their country as backward and reactionary compared to Europe. And they have never been more right than now when Europe and the rest of the First World have gone right while America under Obama has been left back.
Recently Australia, Japan and Norway welcomed in conservative governments. Tony Abbott, Australia’s new prime minister, is a former heavyweight boxer who attended Oxford and is putting a spoke in the wheel of the Global Warming ecohoax. Japan is casting off its pacifism and standing up to the People’s Republic of China and Norway gave its left-wing government the boot and moved in “Iron Erma” in a coalition with the libertarian Progress Party which opposes taxes and immigration and supports free enterprise.
Australia, Japan and Norway are not outliers. The majority of First World countries now have conservative governments.
Canada has embraced a patriotic foreign policy and energy exploration under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his conservative Likud party have continued to move Israel’s economy toward free enterprise. And even in the UK, Prime Minister David Cameron, for all his follies, is a conservative, even if he is more McCain than DeMint, and has pushed for deregulation and welfare reform.
Sweden’s center-right coalition government has won re-election for the first time in a century. Norway and Sweden, countries that Americans used to consider the very embodiments of Socialism, now both have conservative governments.
In Germany, Angela Merkel will serve a third term as chancellor. The Netherlands still has a conservative government which has come out against multiculturalism and the welfare state.
In Spain, the center-right People’s Party won the biggest majority of any party in three decades and is projected to win reelection. In Poland, the center-right Civic Platform continues to govern. In Greece, it’s the center-right New Democracy. In Portugal, it’s the Social Democratic Party and the People’s Party (somewhat on the right, despite their names). In Iceland, it’s the conservative Independence Party and the Progressive Party (also on the right, despite its name.)
Even Europe’s left-wing parties have had to adapt to the new economic environment. Denmark’s Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons, has suffered a severe setback in municipal elections and is scrambling to hold her left-wing government together. And even Thorning-Schmidt only made it this far by embracing welfare reform, cutting corporate taxes and slashing unemployment benefits.
The rule of the radical left in the United States is very much an outlier in the rest of the First World where conservative and center-right parties predominate. The conventional First World response to the economic crisis has been to cut spending and reform welfare, while in the United States has spent more money than ever before and expanded welfare.
Much of Europe now favors less federalism and less immigration. The United States has expanded its federal government dramatically and both Democratic and Republican leaders support amnesty for illegal aliens at a time when immigration is politically toxic everywhere else.
The American left insists that historical inevitability is on its side, but it has lost nearly everywhere else.
America stands alone under the rule of the left, in uncontrolled spending, uncontrolled immigration and the iron hand of the welfare state.
America’s massive wealth and resources have allowed the left to act as if it could borrow against them indefinitely to finance its big government schemes. Smaller countries don’t have the luxury of running up infinite debts and not worrying about how they will be paid back or pretending that impossible rates of economic growth will compensate for trillion dollar deficits.
America is the left’s economic fantasyland because it has so much that they imagine that it will take a long time to bankrupt.
Europe is dominated by parliamentary democracies where it would have been difficult for an executive to stay in office on popularity and racial guilt after his actual policies had been completely discredited. In a parliamentary democracy, the 2010 midterm elections wouldn’t have just meant a Republican House of Representatives, but would have booted Obama out of the White House.
Conservatives denounce populist politics in America, but it’s actually the remnants of the system that safeguards political power from populist elections that has kept the Senate and the White House in the hands of the left while turning over the House of Representatives to the Republicans creating a crisis in which the populist body could do nothing, while Obama unilaterally ushered in an imperial presidency.
Another major difference is that America has a higher percentage of minorities than most other First World countries. In many First World nations, the left has assembled minorities into a welfare coalition. But such a coalition is much more potent in the United States because of demographics.
Finally, there is the Obama factor.
Hillary Clinton would probably have lost in 2012. Most Democratic hacks would have. But the cult of personality built around Obama by the news and entertainment industry has been very hard to breach. Only the “If you like your health plan” lie has finally put a serious dent in his likability and trust ratings.
Obama is something unique. He’s the end product of a venture by liberal billionaires from the financial and tech sectors to build a radical Trojan horse politician. They invested a great deal of money into their project and the dividends have been huge. No other First World country has been victimized by such a calculated scheme or had so many resources invested in hijacking its democracy.
Some 6 billion dollars were raised and spent in the 2012 election. Those are astronomical amounts of money and they are probably only the tip of the iceberg. Beating that kind of spending isn’t easy.
While the rest of the First World moves on, America remains trapped in the defunct economic and political grip of the left. After dedicating enormous resources to taking over the Democratic Party and then the country, the left has turned the United States of America into its Soviet Union, a country out of time, its economy and society wracked by the discredited political and economic theories of the left.
The electorate is going to give us the “dictatorship of the proletariat”, with the help of the media.
IMHO
“Historical inevitability” only works if there is a G-d running things. In the mouths of atheists it is nothing but insanity.
Then he hits hard times and the friends are no where to be found.
We are that guy. Dry wallet, no friends. Funny how that works.
Europe isn’t exactly a broad shield of conservatism, although it may be better than it was because of the developments mentioned in the article. That “selfie” Obastard was taking (that PO’ed his wookie so much) was with David Cameron, a Conservative, and Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who is an extreme leftist (possibly even to the left of Obastard himself, if that’s possible).
But take heart, America: Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister before Ronald Reagan was elected here, so maybe certain parts of Europe will lead the way again.
Yep! You are 100% correct in that,
What way too many whites fail to grasp. No matter what you think about race it is used and will continued to be used against whites as a battering ram. Until we say uncle or we start pushing back.
bkmk
The USA keeps going left(big government etc) because
1. the democrats have imported tens of millions of 3rd world immigrants who democrats use in a game of racial marxism. they set the races up against each other, telling newly arrived mexicans they have to be democrats as Republicans are racist and for white men and they won’t give them freebies
2. the U.S. news media is the worst in the world , most biased etc
3. Obama has rigged the election by sicking the IRS on conservatives, Republicans anyone opposing the democrat party
However , the threat which no one names , controls all the institutions in the USA except for 3% of the votes in the House
The enemy of the American people is the democrat party. The democrat party controls
1. the news media
2. hollwywood
3. the presidency
4. The senate
5. the gov bureaucracies
5. the unions
7. the universities
8. the public schools
9. soros , Lewis,zuckerberg, msny other billionaires are democrats.
10. Obama the main tyrant is a democrat
11. silicon valley, Google etc. are democrats
12. Pelosi, REid, fienstein, Shumer, Durbin , Lois lerner r democrats
13 . the rest of the media
14. IRS , EPA, DHS, HHS, TSA, FBI, etc.
15. liberals control the supreme Court( they approved Obamacare)
15 . Democrats control all the political money .Soros, tides foundation,gov grants,Zuckerberg,Lewis (another billionaire. moveon.org,unions etc.
16. most minorities and immigrant organizations are democrats,NAACP, hispanic orgs etc.
17. the mainstream media
18. Academia
19. most non- profits that get gov grants for socialist goals
20. lawyers and lawyer orgs
21. the courts
Democrat party controls all this and more
Democrats want to makes slaves of all Americans, turn us into cattle with less rights than a cow or farm chicken for them to manipulate.
Every election feels like “now or never.” It definitely felt like that in 2008 and 2012. But it’s not over until God says it’s over. From the beginning, America wouldn’t have survived but for God’s intervention. So it is now and I look for His miraculous help once more. Elections are not the deciding factor in America’s fate. The spiritual health and awakening of the American People are the keys to America’s future.
The beauty of the U.S. is that continued liberalism will mealy melt the bonds of the states to each other. As blue states grow fat under big government they will sink while the more conservative ones will continue to float.
We are still, after all, 50 semi-autonomous nations, most of which are actually center-right.
And Mr. Taylor controlled a lot; until Jeff Smith got finished speaking!
Europeans, however, do have one big advantage over Americans. They tend to walk, so that if they find themselves at the edge of a cliff, they can stop. That’s what’s happening, and why they’re going right. Americans tend to gallop on horseback, shouting “yahoo!” Harder to stop. Here’s the precipice. Slow down. Woaah! Oops. Now we’re f@#$ed with left-wing nany-statism.
remember all the names they called “Go it alone” Bush with his many allies.
lol
That is a gigantic load of horse manure! America has all these factions that huddle together and listen to the most amazing imbeciles that purport to speak for each of these fractured segments of our population.
There is much hatred in this nation directed towards those citizens who have descended from European stock. Some of us are descended from those who immigrated centuries ago. It's too bad that our forefathers who settled in the south didn't chant over and over again these five words:
'LET'S PICK OUR OWN COTTON!'
They learned well from their Liberal Party bretheren in Canada. Fortunately, at least some our populace realised the manure spread by the Liberals and turfed them. One can hope that the same thing will happen in the US, though with people like ‘Boner’ in charge of the GOP, a change is not likely.
Sadly for Canada, our next PM may be ‘Junior’ Turd-owe; who makes 0.00 look like a statesman!
about 2 million legal 3rd world immigrants per year
another 2 million illegal 3rd world immigrants
the immigrants vote for democrats/socialism
The model of modern European liberal, all inclusive government exists only because those governments were subsidized by the U.S. for almost 70 years.
European economies draw much of their strength from the massive U.S. economy and its myriad markets. Trade with the U.S. has always favored Europe.
The other form of subsidy is the U.S. defense umbrella protecting Western Europe since 1945. By stationing troops and arms in Europe the U.S. allowed European nations to neglect defense spending and experiment with the progressive institutions cited by American liberals as a sign of European superiority.
In fact, now that the U.S. teat is drying up Europe has been forced to reconsider its whole vision of government.
America loves left wing governments. Because they give other peoples money to them.
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