"China is strong without morality; Europe is impotent in its ethical smugness. The buffer United States, in contrast, believes morality is not mere good intentions but the willingness and ability to translate easy idealism into hard and messy practice."The United States, to which he refers, is, of course Middle America--and not the Leftist enclaves, including the Democrat Party, which have embraced the suicidal decadence (and perverse "ethical smugness") of Europe.
And this is why the American social and political center of gravity has shifted from the West and Northeast Coasts to Middle America.
Europe, mired in suicidal decadence, lacks the will to survive, let alone prevail. So does Leftist America.
Americans of Middle America, however--ever ascendant, self-confident, and cherishing of The American Dream and the values that made the United States the greatest--and the richest--nation the world has ever known and the last great bastion of Western Civilization--consider Western Civilization well worth preserving and are determined to prevail!
We will.
The trick is to remain resilient, flexible, pragmatic, liberal, and determined and--above all--TO FACE REALITY.
("Liberal," of course, means free, free-thinking, open-minded, and open-to fresh and new ideas; the word has nothing to do with the decadent Left, which is definitely not liberal.)
Hansen's right. When the rest of the world is finally forced to awaken to reality, it will understand that Middle America was right all along and is the best and greatest hope for the world.
If the rest of the world does not awaken to this reality, the United States--Middle America--will procede alone--and will prevail alone, yet again.
The sooner the people of the world abandon the suicidal decadence, including Marxism, that have infected Europe and the Leftist cesspools of America like The Plague, and the sooner they join Middle America in its ascendancy, the better--and the safer--the world will be.
I hope you are right, but an America dependent upon foreign sources of food, raw materials, and energy, deeply in hock after fighting the WOT while buying the favor of our religious enemies and paying for the welfare state, without an educated young population, berefit of the Panama Canal, and massively infiltrated by those who do not mean us well and can't speak our language is not in a good strategic position to win decisively.