Showing posts with label American Exceptionalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Exceptionalism. Show all posts

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Why the Fear of American Exceptionalism?

Talk of American exceptionalism  enrages some liberals.
American flags and people For example, it drove Oliver Stone and American University professor Peter  Kuznick to pen a USA Today commentary  saying Washington should have a wall with “the names of all the Vietnamese,  Cambodians, Laotians, and others who died [in the Vietnam War].” That, they  said, would be “a fitting memorial to all the victims of ‘American  exceptionalism’  a perfect tombstone for that most dangerous of American  myths.”
New America Foundation’s Michael Lind, in a 2011 piece titled “The Case  Against ‘American Exceptionalism,’” dismissed the idea as “amusing, if it were not so dangerous.”American“exceptionalists,” he argued, are know-nothing boastful boobs “not allowed to  peep beyond [their] borders, to learn from the successes and mistakes of people  in other countries.” They “thump” The Federalist Papers as if it were the Bible,  trying to “deduce what Hamilton, Madison and Jay might have said about physician  reimbursement rates.”
Oh my. Stuff that straw man before you knock it down, Mr.  Lind.
Mr. Lind and Mr.  Stone miss the point completely. American exceptionalism is not about  nostalgic yahoos railing against “furriners.” Thomas  Jefferson staunchly believed that Americans had an exceptional destiny. His  entire worldview was informed by European philosophy. He took ideas from Swiss  natural law philosopher Emmerich de Vattel to write the Declaration of  Independence, and he was a great admirer of the French philosopher Voltaire.  Is Jefferson a know-nothing rube for  believing in American  exceptionalism?
Those who believe in American  exceptionalism don’t reject foreigners. They recognize what’s unique about our  history: a distinctive confluence of culture, government and economy, and an  ethos of personal responsibility that tamed the economy’s wild horses and  tempered the potentially anarchic tendencies of free people. These, not  government action, gave rise to the wealthiest and most powerful nation on  earth.

Friday, September 13, 2013

Obama and Putin Tag Team no match for American Patriotism

Arrogant, but completely Marxist that two of the world’s top egos would turn around and blame American exceptionalism


Other than in their own ego-inspired imaginations, neither Barack Obama nor Vladimir Putin is too big to fail,  especially when braggadocio notwithstanding, they fall backwards into their own propaganda trap.

Both preside as presidents over soft tyrannies, one ruling what is left of a country that ruled with the brutal fist of Communism for 70 long years; the other who sees forced Marxism on an unwilling Republic as the fastest ticket to malcontent retribution and lifetime power.

Don’t fall into the trap that Obama and Putin are sworn enemies,  or that the more ‘manly’ Putin has trumped Obama and is on America’s side.  Both Obama and Putin work toward the same end: the elimination of America as world super power and the last place for freedom lovers to run to on Mother Earth.

Even the most cunning of Marxists politicians leave telltale signs for the masses they regard as dumbed down and asleep.  In this case, you don’t need a Colombo to see the giveaway signs.  Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin both use the same descriptions in deliberately undermining the USA.  It’s all that “American exceptionalism”, don’t ya’ know.

How arrogant, but completely Marxist that two of the world’s top egos would turn around and blame American exceptionalism for the ills they attribute to the USA.


[VIDEO] Limbaugh: Putin Understands American Exceptionalism Better Than Obama Does

Via: Pat Dollard

Thursday, September 20, 2012

OBAMA LEGACY: CANADA HAS FREEST ECONOMY IN NORTH AMERICA


The foundational stone of American Exceptionalism has always been our economic freedom. The ability of individuals, regardless of background or circumstances, to freely engage in the marketplace to lift their own fortunes has been our nation's greatest strength. With economic freedom, none of the "isms" that keep the left up at night matter. We are all truly, regardless of race, gender, class or anything else, "captains of our fate and masters of our souls." A decade ago, we were the second most economically free country in the world. Today, under Obama, we are 18th

Every year, The Fraser Institute, a free-market think tank in Canada, compiles a highly respected index of economic freedom in countries around the world. Broadly speaking, it looks at five critical components to freedom: size of government, rule of law, sound money, free trade and regulation. Historically, the US has been near the top of the table in economic freedom, surpassed only by the city-states of Hong Kong and Singapore. This year, we are 18th in the world, while our northern neighbor, Canada, has become the 5th most economically free nation in the world. 
Let us pause here and list the countries that are more economically free than ours. 
Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Bahrain, Mauritius, Finland, Chile, United Arab Emirates, Ireland, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Estonia, Taiwan, Denmark and Qatar. 
We are just barely ahead of Kuwait and Cyprus. 

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