tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post338474740289432703..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: The baleful influence of the West.Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-50182331787594001442015-06-16T17:37:45.719-04:002015-06-16T17:37:45.719-04:00@MissAnthropy,
I've long thought that. Male...@MissAnthropy, <br /><br />I've long thought that. Males have been distorted in the minds of feminists and leftists and said to be haters of women and engaged in a "war on women." These are absurd, totally false images, as though men who experience the unqualified love of their mothers would come out of their family experiences with a hatred of women in general.<br /><br />So too has nationialism been distorted. It's a healthy, factual regard for one's own homeland where one grew up and reveled in the joys of playing outside and making lifelong friends. It is a love of one's own not a hatred of foreigners but it was sold post-WWII as the worst of all evils. Totalitarian leftists killed over 100 million in the last century but that is never kept in the forefront of our public consciousness. As a "counter" to this hateful nationalism, the E.U. was metasticized into something that makes a joke of the idea of representative government. Millions died and Europe is on the way to ever-strengthening total government but the worst evil is this distorted "nationalism."<br /><br />The degradation of our language by the left is now total.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-21394641276797765262015-06-10T16:19:44.628-04:002015-06-10T16:19:44.628-04:00I believe it was Napoleon who said "money has...I believe it was Napoleon who said "money has no motherland." People are animated by different things. Some are nationalists first, others businessmen first, some are religionists first, and so on.<br /><br />I think what we're seeing are the lingering consequences of the World Wars, which left the concept of nationalism with a black eye for multiple generations thereafter. Prior to that, national identity and national pride setup a certain framework that other pursuits -- business, for one -- operated within and subordinated to.<br /><br />The only thing that can revive the West is a resurgence of nationalism. It needn't be an aggressive, belligerent nationalism.MissAnthropyhttp://www.itsaboutliberty.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-37687337770659474432015-06-10T13:02:09.279-04:002015-06-10T13:02:09.279-04:00Gates of Vienna has a good piece on the role of th...<a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/06/destructivism-and-pathocracy/" rel="nofollow">Gates of Vienna</a> has a good piece on the role of the psychopath in the diseased state of the world. Soros fits right in there and his U.S. activities are despicable, namely, facilitating vote fraud and financing riots, to name two.<br /><br />I agree that offshoring is a rational response to oppressive and stupid taxation and regulation. Still, one thought always come to mind. Of all the countries to which manufacturing could have gone, why EXACTLY was it that it went to a mother trucking communist dictatorship with no particular friendly feelings or common purpose? Why not India, the Philippines, Mexico, Poland, Iraq, Brazil, Japan, Russia, or S. Africa? On top of which, the supposed wage differential was bogus as the Chinese artificially held down the value of their currency. Now we've financed a large, modern Chinese military, enabled Chinese money to buy up U.S. property, and beggared our citizens.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-45192785052531205272015-06-09T21:31:04.654-04:002015-06-09T21:31:04.654-04:00While there is a certain amount of damage done by ...While there is a certain amount of damage done by "corporatism" - especially in this age of "crony capitalism" rather than the free market which the Left thinks it can "improve" upon, by destroying it - I feel bound to say that cheaper labor and improving profits are not the only reasons there is so much out-sourcing to foreign countries. Yes, there are many unethical CEOs, Boards of Directors, and business owners for whom the almighty dollar is more than simply the bottom line.<br /><br />The damage done by various regulations (with the force of law) which make it either impossible or too expensive for many businesses to exist within the US is responsible for some of the flight of manufacturing. Add to that the unreasonable demands and power given to unions, an incredibly naive (or Cloward-Piven driven desire to destroy our Republic) understanding of how "minimum wage" harms the ability to employ people, and I would want to out-source if I were trying to start - or continue - a business.<br /><br />Color me hopelessly conservative, but I think most of the exploitation is a matter of the Left - including the corporate and "elite" Left such as Soros, who jump-started his wealth by giving up his fellow Jews to the butchers of Nazi Germany - using all those groups, those helpless, hopeless (entitled and precious) minorities and illegals to achieve their own agenda. Exploitation _and_ recklessness are their modi operandi.<br /><br />Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.com