A Rant About Africa

The Better Half of my Brain | 27 June 2002 | Live Free or Die

[Live free or die]

I think I have it fairly well pinned regarding whom is to blame for the present malfeasance in Africa. When the Europeans colonized Africa and set up their own governments, they were establishing a carbon-copy of their own type of government.

Now bare with me for a second...I took a look recently at the biographies of every dictator I could think of (major or minor)...one of the things I'd found was that most of them were educated in Paris or somewhere else in France. Now I could be wrong here, but when the Europeans actually left Africa (out of their own guilt) they left the Africans thinking that a socialist kleptocracy could actually function.

Liberia was pretty much the only American colony in Africa. We never put much into it or took much out of it. Let me ask...If the United States had actually vigorously exported honest to God democracy and free market capitalism with rule of law attached, would Africa be in the mess it is now?

Let's take a look at Zimbabwe. One of the biggest groups in favor of letting the Marxist degenerates take over the place was the UN and most of Europe.

Can anyone tell me I'm wrong when I say that European socialism and complacency is entirely to blame for the mess Africa is in?

[Live free or die]

I dear the world is quickly being divided into two groups...The English Speakers and Everyone Else.

The English Speakers are largely capitalistic nations run by the rule of law and have found great prosperity.

The Everyone Else group looks at our success with envy. Not the kind of envy that drives someone to achieve and work to obtain equality. The kind of envy they possess is driven by hatred and greed.

[DoughtyOne]

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