Hating America: A History

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 1/20/05 | Richard B. Speed

[MadAnthony1776]

Another eighteenth century popularizer of anti-American views was Cornelius DePauw of the Netherlands who contended in his popular 1768 book, Philosophical Research on the Americans, that everything across the Atlantic was “either degenerate or monstrous.”

He obviously missed the boat because I would say that last comment more reflects things in Europe. You can window shop for prostitutes in Holland and Germany to name just one of the many institutions common to Europe.

[hmong]

"Even in the twenty-first century, Americans prefer a plain talking Texas cowboy who expresses himself in sentence fragments to a Harvard educated liberal who speaks in nuanced paragraphs."

Didn't both of them graduate from Harvard.

Envy...that is the sin. Liberals are just envy appeasers...as Jack Wheeler would say.

[Lion Den Dan]

America is hated for its success, the same reason the Democrats hate America.

[K1W1 Patriot]

Thank God for America. I hope that Her enemies wallow in defeat and ignominy and frustration: for America's motivation is (mostly) pure.

Down with The Bad Guys!

[Mo1]

A History, enlightened Europeans were convinced that America was inferior to the Old World and that nothing good would ever come of it

Didn't they think the same thing of Israel

[kipita]

America is great mainly due to two reasons:

It's a common person's country where anyone with intelligence and/or a good business idea has the resources to accomplish their objectives.

Freedom of thought from religious ideology but respect for religion in everyday life.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Screw the rest of the world, and the lib-dem traitors here. I don't give a flying rat's rearend what they think or want.

[datura]

The only problem is that those same losers think and want to run our lives for us. That's where we come into the picture.

[jazzlite]

"America is hated for its success, the same reason the Democrats hate America."

Oh, yes! It is plainly and simply ENVY. The ruling powers do not like others to have the opportunity to challenge their dominance. Just look at the ridiculous fabrications and predictions coming from the European intellectuals and children of privilege regarding early America..They did not have the courage to take the risks involved in discovering and taming this great nation and they wanted to be sure that no one else with the courage was allowed to try. Thankfully, many found a way to try in spite of all the criticism and here we are with new generations of the same kind of human beings trying to stop America and paralyze her freedom. The only constant in all of this is the power of ENVY. We saw a perfect example of it in Barbara Boxer's unfair and unfounded comments to Condoleeza Rice in that hearing day before yesterday. Condi Rice, perhaps one of the most brilliant women ever to walk the face of the earth, has overcome the Barbara Boxer's of the world and in addition to gracing whatever office she holds with integrity, dignity, honesty and truth, she has disciplined her body and mind to become very proficient in the arts..She is a concert level pianist and a champion ice-skater, so I have been told. And, I am sure she learned long ago how to deal with the vicious ENVY sure to come her way. I cannot imagine the wisdom this woman has after dealing with her knowledge of the world, plus the roadblocks thrown up before her by those who recognized her abilities and feared the success she would have along with the racism which has existed all along. Dr. Rice is definitely a victim of Anti-Americanism. Thanks for making us aware of HATING AMERICA: A HISTORY.

[knarf]

Bump to read after work.

[PJBlogger]

HATING AMERICA: THE NEW WORLD SPORT
by John Gibson is an excellent, highly readable book that gives a more political view.
John Gibson is a Conservative who hosts a show on FOX News.

[Berosus]

Hmmm, Europe's best, bravest and brightest came to America to find a new life. Therefore most of today's Americans are descended from them, while today's Europeans are descended from those who stayed behind. Any connection between that and the reasons why America has done so much better over the course of the past century?

[cleo1939]

They have wanted to do this from the beginning. Now it is
their disappointment that they can't and envy because
somehow we have stumbled through and made something that
they couldn't even imagine.

Ah well that is just a cross that we will have to bare.

I just can't get to excited over ignorance.

[Paul_Denton]

one they note bears a disquieting similarity to anti-Semitism, its ancient and evil sibling.

Bring it on europe! I prefer a straight fight to all this backstabbing.

[gr8eman]

I am in Europe and I swear that they are still not over the fact that the US had to come over here in WWII and straighten out all of the heathens. They cannot live it down on either side!

[Proud_texan]

Hehe, yup. I pretty much tuned out at "“Why do they hate us?” The question seems to be on everyone’s lips these days". That question ain't on my lips.

If I was to think about it I suspect it'd be that the "upper crust" doesn't like the idea that if they moved here who their daddy was wouldn't mean squat. Otherwise it looks like the rest of the world (their "inferiors") would like to move here.

[nicollo]

I'd add to the list the late 19th century and early 20th century populists such as Edward Bellamy and Herbert Croly, as chief among our homegrown America haters. Bellamy wrote of a socialist utopia, and Croly, who co-founded The New Republic, was a fascist who believed that equality trumped liberty. Both and those of their movements rejected the American Founding.

Those bursting ideas of the Founding have just scared the hell out of so many people.

[OldFriend]

I think it was Reagan who said it best.

You can move to Japan, France, Great Britain and never become Japanese, French, or British, but you can move to the United States from anywhere in the world and become AMERICAN.