Posted: 10/16/2009 9:43:14 AM EDT
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Interesting article...
Anyone care to chime in? Anyone? Read This Now ..."Which leads to my second proposition: Facing the choice of whether to maintain our dominance or to gradually, deliberately, willingly, and indeed relievedly give it up, we are currently on a course towards the latter. The current liberal ascendancy in the United States––controlling the executive and both houses of Congress, dominating the media and elite culture––has set us on a course for decline. And this is true for both foreign and domestic policies. Indeed, they work synergistically to ensure that outcome." |
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Interesting article... Anyone care to chime in? Anyone? Read This Now ..."Which leads to my second proposition: Facing the choice of whether to maintain our dominance or to gradually, deliberately, willingly, and indeed relievedly give it up, we are currently on a course towards the latter. The current liberal ascendancy in the United States––controlling the executive and both houses of Congress, dominating the media and elite culture––has set us on a course for decline. And this is true for both foreign and domestic policies. Indeed, they work synergistically to ensure that outcome." Amazing that Obama has given up so much in less than one year. Simply amazing. He's got another full year to keep swinging for the fences too. The populace won't know what he's given away for many, many years... |
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Interesting article... Anyone care to chime in? Anyone? Read This Now ..."Which leads to my second proposition: Facing the choice of whether to maintain our dominance or to gradually, deliberately, willingly, and indeed relievedly give it up, we are currently on a course towards the latter. The current liberal ascendancy in the United States––controlling the executive and both houses of Congress, dominating the media and elite culture––has set us on a course for decline. And this is true for both foreign and domestic policies. Indeed, they work synergistically to ensure that outcome." Amazing that Obama has given up so much in less than one year. Simply amazing. He's got another full year to keep swinging for the fences too. The populace won't know what he's given away for many, many years... Yep. If there are any truthful history books in the not too distant future, our great––-no, our grandchildren will read (if that's still taught or if books are still printed) about life in America before the kenyan and his henchmen & women took control and be stunned silent by their predicament and wonder what it was like to have the liberty and freedoms we enjoy today. |
| Decline is not a choice, but a consequence of shifts in the patterns of production. Britain didn't choose to decline - she got involved in two ruinous continental European wars to forestall it, only to bring it on faster. Bourbon France didn't choose decline, nor Habsburg Spain, nor the Dutch, nor anyone else, and the US isn't choosing it now. It's being forced on it because the rest of the world has got richer, because the US has got itself in debt right up to Uncle Sam's bushy eyebrows, and because the US has led the way in constructing an international economic system that ties down all participants in a spiderweb of economic ties. What Obama says or does is merely epiphenomenal. A severely-indebted US with 20% of global GDP is simply not as powerful or free to act as the creditor US with 50% of global GDP of 1945 was. The US will remain a very powerful country for the foreseeable future, but it is in relative decline and has been since the 1960s, with a brief lull in the 1990s. |
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Interesting article... Anyone care to chime in? Anyone? Read This Now ..."Which leads to my second proposition: Facing the choice of whether to maintain our dominance or to gradually, deliberately, willingly, and indeed relievedly give it up, we are currently on a course towards the latter. The current liberal ascendancy in the United States––controlling the executive and both houses of Congress, dominating the media and elite culture––has set us on a course for decline. And this is true for both foreign and domestic policies. Indeed, they work synergistically to ensure that outcome." Wow! Super Tag! I've been saying the same thing, just not as articulately. |
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Decline is not a choice, but a consequence of shifts in the patterns of production. Britain didn't choose to decline - she got involved in two ruinous continental European wars to forestall it, only to bring it on faster. Bourbon France didn't choose decline, nor Habsburg Spain, nor the Dutch, nor anyone else, and the US isn't choosing it now. It's being forced on it because the rest of the world has got richer, because the US has got itself in debt right up to Uncle Sam's bushy eyebrows, and because the US has led the way in constructing an international economic system that ties down all participants in a spiderweb of economic ties. What Obama says or does is merely epiphenomenal. A severely-indebted US with 20% of global GDP is simply not as powerful or free to act as the creditor US with 50% of global GDP of 1945 was. The US will remain a very powerful country for the foreseeable future, but it is in relative decline and has been since the 1960s, with a brief lull in the 1990s. Well said. We've been undermining the very things that have made us so dominant for decades, and the myopic nature of our political discourse is a significant factor. The fact that so few people can see the present in any context larger than the current election cycle is dooming us, we're seeing the consequences of actions taken decades ago now, the consequences of Obamas stupidity haven't even begun to be felt yet. However, that's a choice too, not a choice we make consciously but such political nearsightedness is still a choice. |