I stand corrected.

But you know, you are a bad person.
Not that I have any evidence, I just feel that way.

and a ignorant one as well.

You arent fooling anyone ..its obvious you wrote that.

/fail.

You are so right about these collectivist people, always on a mission trying to save someone or something, they deem broken.

If there aint a crisis they’ll damn well find one or manufacture one, where only they can be the heroes, riding to the rescue.

Ordinary people have to keep telling the socialist Obama’s of the world, ….

“if it aint barrack, dont fix it”.

When the most neo-liberal, unhinged, BDS-afflicted of my co-workers was speaking of the murders and other nonsense in Mumbai, he said: “That’s another reason why I hate religion. Religion is the root of all the evil in this world.”

You see, it isn’t that some individual humans abuse religion for evil purposes, it’s that religion itself, by its existence, creates evil in Man. In his view, guns are bad, as well as anything that is either harmless or actually helpful to our society but that sometimes is abused by individuals making poor decisions. As said by R.D. above, my co-worker believes McDonald’s is bad because he saw Supersize Me and believes the way the moron who made the movie believes: That poor choices have no place in the argument. They believe the very existence of McDonald’s is the problem and therefore if the choice of going to McD’s to eat was eliminated, people would never be fat.

This is the mindset of the neo-liberal who wants to “save the world.” And as Washington is now lousy with these types, I am heavily arming myself.

Getting back to the basics, the classic liberalism we now generally refer to as conservatism was the real revolution that gave us more freedom, liberty, health, welfare and leisure than ever before and, frankly, it is the only revo we need.

The Real Revo. That sounds familiar.

Modern leftism, liberalism, Marxism etc. can be traced back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Theory of Natural Man. What a load of farcical crap that was. Yet it led to the French Revolution which, of course, was seed to every half baked theory to create a new man through social engineering since.

You know that commonly presented fantasy of getting a time machine, traveling back in time and killing Hitler? Well, to hell with that. If I had a time machine my gift to humanity would be to travel back to Geneva in 1712 and strangle the infant Rousseau in his cradle. Now that would be a public service.

I think this relates to what Mark Steyn and Spengler@AsiaTimes have been theorizing about Obama by essentially describing him as a ‘third world leftist.’ Besides growing up with a strong dose of left-wing anti-Americanism from his Mom, Dad, Step-Dad, and Uncle Frank, Obuma grew up in the third world(Indonesia in this case), and perhaps identifies with it more strongly than the US, and has even shown a Tony Blair-esque contempt towards rural culture e.g. ‘people in small town America are bitter, cling to guns, God, etc…’

Spengler/Steyn argue that while Obama may claim he’s American, he actually shares and recognizes the resentments of the 3rd world as legitimate resentments because of American cultural encroachment on 3rd world cultures.

Culture isn’t about genes or race; it’s about values, beliefs, and attitudes. Culture,(especially American culture) matters because it influences a society’s receptivity to individuality, democracy, justice, entrepreneurship, and free-market institutions. These are just some of the qualities traditionally espoused and exemplified by the US/West which have encroached upon and ousted more traditional 3rd world cultures. For the better I’ll add.

So this isn’t just about the dominance of US cultural products like McDonald’s, US pop music and movies, and the NBA in across the world. Rather it’s just as much about the US living up to its own cultural commitments like the importance of the individual, equality of the sexes, free market economies, constitutional government, free speech, and freedom of conscience. All of these values are inherently bound up in the culture of ‘America’ and it is American culture by its mere existence that presents itself as a challenge against global cultures that don’t share the same values and have been overwhelmed by American culture.

So what happens now that the US has a president that recognizes those grievances from the world towards America as legitimate issues? Instead of being an advocate for individual rights, what if our president relegates/limits that value to being just another value equally as valid as collective ownership/community rights/Sharia Law?

I suspect the answer is we’ll all be seeing four years of Obama state-driven multiculturalism and guilt-ridden moral relativism, at home and abroad, which plays on differences and acknowledges and condones segregation at the expense of individual rights and responsibilities. I fear that an Obama administration really doesn’t want immigrants or any people repudiating their ancestral cultures, especially the nastier bits–because then they might, just might want to join OURS e.g. US/Western civilization, as unhyphenated individual citizens and full participants.

I have no interest in changing the US to kow-tow to the world’s needs. The US constitution doesn’t ‘bow down’ to any other nation or government on earth. So everytime I read/hear some UN/globalist like Zakaria, I can’t help but think of British General Charles Napier when he encountered the locals in 19th Century India practicing their time ‘honored’ cultural ritual of sati:

“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”

All cultures are not equal, frankly some stink. So while Obuma will attempt to lower US cultural standards to gain the world’s approval, I’ll bitterly and chauvinistically cling to my American cultural commitments to the US constitution, God, guns, hard work, free speech, American civic values, and unrepentant individualism.

Burger King is under fire for a new advertising campaign featuring “burger virgins”, impoverished villagers in remote parts of the world, taking part in Whopper versus Big Mac taste tests.

Conservative View: These villagers are adults. They tried the burgers and gave their opinion. They got paid besides. If they wanted to take part in a Whopper vs. Big Mac taste test and get paid to do it, more power to them.

Liberal view: Giving the villagers burgers corrupts them. They are innocent of the sins of Western capitalism and, by using them in this way you vandalize their unspoiled and uncorrupted nature. It is violent assault to tempt them to embrace our corrupt society.

Same as in the post… Conservatives see the villagers as individual adults. Liberals see them as malleable innocents in danger of being influenced and changed by a corrupt society.

Conservatives see them as adults making their own decisions. Liberals see them as children falling in with a bad crowd.

For some countries, the current economic crisis could actually accelerate the process. For the past two decades, for example, China has grown at approximately 9 percent a year and the United States at 3 percent. For the next few years, American growth will likely be 1 percent and China’s, by the most conservative estimates, 5 percent. So, China was growing three times as fast as the United States but will now grow five times as fast, which only brings closer the date when the Chinese economy will equal in size that of the United States. Then contrast China’s enormous surplus reserves to America’s massive debt burden: the picture does not suggest a return to American unipolarity.

From three times faster to five times faster? Please. Those figures are meaningless.

The relevant figures for comparing growth are 1.09/1.03 vs. 1.05/1.01

In the fast growth scenario, China is growing 5.82% faster than the United States. In the slow growth scenario, China is growing 3.96% faster than the U.S. It will take China longer to catch up to the U.S. under the slower growth scenario.

You would think a writer and the editors of a national magazine who presume to tell us how to fix the world could, you know, master 7th grade math first.