There is one massive problem here. While you are free to reject the idea all you like, All the countries that Bill and Barry hosed ARE NOT rejecting it. And they, not Americans, are what matters in this scenario.
Here is just one simple example. Somewhere in the world exists a tiny muslim nation that never attacked America. In actuality there are several. Are you (not personally, I mean the general ‘you’) going to trust them? Ever? Why not?
Well, if you are thinking straight, you say to yourself “Their loyalty id to the Koran’s teachings and in the future, the Sultan of Good Feelings may be replaced by another Ayatollah type.
Every other country in the world now looks at America and thinks just what the Polish newspaper writer said. “The problem is with the people who would elect a “Barack Obama”. They see clearly that America of the modern age is not the America of the Reagan age. They see a country that cheers people because they are gay and fires them for harsh language. They see our leaders lie to the world blatantly on any number of subjects. they know that the likelihood of an end to NSA spying is zero regardless of who is in charge.
Who in their right mind would trust us now? Who? We keep screwing allies like Canada and forcing the Ghey on others under threat of foreign aid, regardless of their cultures. We keep electing lesser evils that stand for winning and nothing more when we don’t choose the lesser evil to begin with. We have a congress that is rated below the media by the people that elected it. We don’t trust ourselves. How in Gods name are we supposed to think anyone would trust us?
It would take a looooong time to even get back to break even. I don’t know if we can ever even get back to where we were under Bush, much less Reagan. And it is meaningless to think just because we want something to happen, that it will because we say so.
Actions have consequences even for us.
Things change. I’m sure many people thought exactly the same thing when Carter was President. They saw a weak President who turned on allies, supported nutters like Pol Pot and was weak and ineffective against the Soviets. Someone who lost one of our greatest allies in the Middle East, and failed against his successors.
They saw someone who counselled despair and pushed liberal ideas onto a country that didn’t want nor care for them. And they saw someone who was unwilling to stand up for America, stand up against Communism and was in fact the first President to openly start advocating for the homosexual agenda.
Reagan never apologized for what Carter did, nor did he ever let it stop him from reversing his policies, both here and across the globe. Reagan once said that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. I would add that tyranny is also never more than one generation away from extinction.
Freedom may be on the road to extinction in America, but it can be reversed. And be reversed much more quickly than many conservatives think. One way or another, Obama won’t be here forever.
I’m sure some people back then were also contemptuous of the American people who elected Carter too. I mean, the American people who elected this weak and effusive President must be flawed too, right?
But the American people just four years later threw him out, and Carter lost in a landslide among pretty much the same electorate that had elected Carter in the first place.