[NZerFromHK]

This piece is primarily aimed at European countries and Britain, but given that much of political heritage and modern politics of Canada are highly similar to Britain and Europe, and how Australia has been inching out of this paradigm towards the American strain of Anglosphere from the Federation but particularly since the Hawke years, it is of worthwhile reference to people of these two nations.

[NZerFromHK]

Ping!

[RWR8189]

Interesting article, thanks for posting.

[nathanbedford]

Mainstream European press coverage of America, free markets, and robust conservatism is so routinely paranoid and hyperbolic that it makes Howard Dean look temperate.

Boy has he got that right! As I sit here in Germany the reports about America by the BBC are simply kafkaesque.

[Gordongekko909]

Two mechanisms might erode those fears: first, the potentially powerful demonstration effect of the former Communist countries' success. Today, a contest is underway between economic liberty in east-central Europe—whose growth could demonstrate the efficiency of their less regulated and less taxed economies—and the efforts of the French, German, and other Western European governments to force growth-stifling "harmonizing" measures on the new E.U. members. East-central Europe can only play an instructive role if its economies remain free. American conservatives thus have an interest in maintaining the perceived viability of the market-oriented central European "social model." To this end, the U.S. could offer those countries closer trade ties and moral-diplomatic support in their attempt to stand up to Brussels (and Paris, and Berlin, and…).

Yeah New Europe!

[Gordongekko909]

A second means of eroding anti-market skepticism would be a campaign of public diplomacy, not by the U.S. government but by the American conservative movement. Such a campaign would show Western Europeans that a great deal of their fears are unfounded. Books like Cowboy Capitalism (2004), by Olaf Gersemann, a German business journalist, have begun to debunk myths about America's poverty, joblessness, social immobility, and quality of life; but more efforts are needed. Blogs remain an undeveloped medium in Europe and might help kickstart the resistance to the European Left's intellectual hegemony. A little encouragement might go a long way.

This means us, kids. No more making fun of Europe. No, not even France.

[Tzimisce]

Conservatives in Europe? There aren't any.

The people who want to slowly (as opposed to quickly) implement Marxist theory don't count.

[Fair Go]

Looks a most interesting article which I will be spending some more time on. Thanks for the post.

[TheSarce]

Great post, bookmarking to read in depth later.

[Talking_Mouse]

bookmark to read later

[driftless]

One thing omitted in this largely excellent article is the fact that neanderthal leftism is so inculcated in many Europeans (and American leftists as well), that many of these nuts are for NO!!! economic growth whatsoever. There are large amounts of lefties who believe that the unibomber life-style is the way to go. They'd have us all living in mud huts eating discarded tree-bark.

A great many lefties are positively economic-wise anti-growth. That is one large reason why they hate capitalism. Capitalism and free-markets mean growth. If everyone who wants a job has one, then what would they need lefties for? That is why lefties hate capitalism. Since lefties are for more control over peoples lives, ergo they are for more government.

[imintrouble]

Good article - I immediately thought of Canada when I read it as you have pointed out.

The future between the two "friendly" nations at the top of the North American continent is not as bright as it was at one time. Canada has become a Socialist European wannabe.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Excellent article. Thanks.

I only take exception to a small, unimportant point:

All this reminds one of nothing so much as the 1970s. The spirit of Jimmy Carter exited the American political stage decades ago, but, like Jerry Lewis, it remains a matinee favorite on the other side of the Atlantic.

He makes an excellent point were his facts correct. Jimmy Carter never excited anyone. Like Clinton, he was a creation of the leftists media. Even on the heels of Watergate, Carter would have been defeated if Gerald Ford were more than a dumb-looking manikin.