Posted on 04/24/2022 7:16:30 PM PDT by conservative98
Fox News host Mark Levin explained what "America first" means to him, Sunday, by debunking the notion that our founders were "nationalists."
The "Life, Liberty & Levin" host said how the word "nationalist" cannot be found in our founding documents because the founders and framers "believed in Americanism," guided by "natural law and rights," not nationalism" or "populism."
"The Tenth Amendment rejects nationalism. It’s federalism. Talks about state sovereignty. Why do we have a Ninth Amendment? Have you read that one lately? It talks about individual liberty, it is in my view, a reflection of the Declaration. They put it right there in the Ninth Amendment. That is your protection. Nationalism strikes me as an all powerful, centralized federal government. Right? I am not a nationalist."
"There’s a fusion there. The one outright hates the country, the American Marxist, trying to destroy it from within. The other says ‘I love the country so much, we have to isolate it from everything and everything else.’ Really?" he explained.
Instead, Levin argued, "America first" means responding to global atrocities like Russia's war with Ukraine, to stop another world war from happening.
"America means embracing capitalism but not selling to the enemy or giving to the enemy weapons they will sure as hell use against us… And Americanism means to me when you see mass graves in Ukraine, now, 9,000, when you see people being slaughtered by a monster and a war machine that is imperialistic, that if they have their way … will light the fuse with its allies in communist China in terrorist Iran, in North Korea … really creating a true world war."
"America first doesn't mean putting your head in the sand and pretending otherwise. You want to protect your children from war? You stand up now," he urged.
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Mark Levin is a smart guy. But the Ukraine war is a European problem, not an American problem. So I believe I’ll heed George Washington over Mark Levin here: avoid foreign entanglements.
Side note: This is not to justify or ignore Russia’s invasion. Putin is a war criminal. But he’s Europe’s problem, not ours.
Head out of the sand and eyes wide open means asking what corrupt deals has Jao Bai-din been a part of in Ukraine, especially since he openly bragged about getting a prosecutor fired who was looking into his illegal activities with Burisma Holdings.
This is true, but I am also not a traitor and am always on the right side of things.
Can't say the same for you Putinists.
Adrenochrome? Seriously? What about the tooth fairy and santa claus?
CC
There is nothing wrong with Nationalism. Levin was the same genius who hated Trump for a long time and only came around to give himself
Relevance.
We have to wage war to stop war!
"In Latin, non sequitur means "it does not follow." The phrase was borrowed into English in the 1500s by people who made a formal study of logic. For them, it meant a conclusion that does not follow from the statements that lead to it."
“Instead, Levin argued, “America first” means responding to global atrocities like Russia’s war with Ukraine, to stop another world war from happening.”
Show me where in the Constitution it says we can send billions of dollars in weaponry to the Ukraine.
Let’s just be honest. We are way beyond our Constitution with Ukraine, we are way beyond our Constitution in printing money to buy weapons to send to them. We are way beyond our Constitution in failing to hold our President accountable for outright bribery sourced in Ukraine.
The Constitution says nothing about fighting wars beyond our borders to either support or oppose tyrants, beyond those we fought for our freedom. Yet we’ve supported and opposed many tyrants just over the past 20 years.
Our straying from the Constitution is as much a cause of the threat of renewed world war as anything that Russia has done in Ukraine. We squandered our treasure, our blood, and now our credibility over the past 20 years, and the whole world will pay.
No Mark, we are not Constitutionally obligated to do anything in Ukraine. I would argue it’s the opposite. But we are involved there anyway, we are sending weapons. You can argue if it’s the morally correct thing to do, it may or may not be so. But don’t tell me we are Constitutionally obligated. Levin is going full leftist by asserting things are guaranteed in the Constitution when they are not.
Sticking your nose in other people’s business isn’t any better than sticking your head in the sand. America is being invaded RIGHT now and we have no money. Short of launching nukes at us Russia isn’t a threat to America and invading the ukraine isn’t our business. We invade places all the time for a lot less reasons.
I will always to be an enemy to this illegitimate government destroying our country. Maybe if you keep licking their hands they will keep feeding you.
Wrong. America was founded on Nationalism. All 13 states had to agree to join the Union or we never would have declared Independince. The Union is older than the Constitution.
He doesn’t get that people born with foreign nationality are not natural born citizens.
That was the entire purpose of it being put in the Constitution.
John Jay to George Washington:
“Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Command in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.”
What hogwash. I remember when Mark said people wanting a convention of the states were crazy until he realized it was the brilliant. And then he wrote a book about something he would hang up on callers about just a few years earlier.
America first doesn’t mean isolationism, populism or a giant federal government advocate. Mark pulls the Obama technique of deploying straw man arguments to avoid a legitimate discussion.
So what does America First mean to me?
It means if we want to help others we must be able to stand on our. Be self reliant. Our foundation must be built on rock. Not on shifting sand of incredible debt at 133% of our GDP.
We are $30 trillion in debt. All because we have helped Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries experience their own liberty for our “safety”.
We have made “public servants” helping liberate others around the world richer than anytime in the history of the world. All while giving up our freedoms.
I can’t fault Mark. Like any good attorney he is being paid by his employer to dress up a new war under anything that will help it sell. He has chosen the auspice of liberty.
How about we fix our financial and social issues first? And then we can be stronger when helping others. No one is even arguing we could isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. That is just another Neocon talking point.
That is what America First means to me.
The Devil is speeding up the timeline and if God doesn’t intervene, Russia will go after Israel , then world war and the end time..not end times.
Levin is a neocon hack and we should stay out of it.
Levin supported the post-war in Iraq for years.
There were the Articles of Confederation written I believe in 1776.
Perfectly logical arguments.
Bullfauci.
That sounds like something a selfie-taking, participation trophy-polishing zillennial would say. 🙄
Good post yours. In many respects, we are like the old British Empire. We must be involved in every last thing on the planet. That kind of thinking bled Britain dry. And it will bleed us dry, too.
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