(01-16-2016 03:18 AM)Samseau Wrote: You make it sound like the average American has some kind of grand plan for the world. What you forget is that most Americans are completely ignorant of foreign policy. Most Americans just focus on trying to pay the bills.
I said nothing about the average American because, as you say, he has virtually no input into his country's foreign policy. I don't mention him because he's not to blame, just as much as the average Finn isn't to blame for his government joining in on Merkel's insane open borders. Both the average American and the average European have been totally betrayed by their leaders, so looking to US foreign policy for succor when US leaders have actively invited this situation is misled.
Quote:There certainly is a culture of America which is very distinct. It's hard to see it because American culture has become ubiquitous with anything international, since America sets the standard for everyone else. Really now, the world's standards are American standards. Americans are also unique in their freedom of speech and guns. Easily one of the least cucked places on the planet.
This is a deeper topic than policy, but it deserves our attention. What you call American culture has, for the most part, been invented and (even worse) continuously reinvented since the 1950s. Central institutions of American life: the supermarket, shopping mall, suburb, freeway, halftime show, TV dinner...are very new and were created to replace what America was. They aren't just un-traditional, they are anti-traditional.
There are many examples of this I could pick from, but the clearest is the demolition of Old Penn Station in 1963. Probably the
most beautiful building in the entire country, and even more than that it stood as a refulgent symbol of American civic virtue. Yet in the name of money, it was torn down and replaced with a
repulsive, uncultured joke. This was repeated across the country.
In principle, this is precisely what is happening now in Europe. Priceless heritage and timeless inheritance of a people gets in the way of profit? They tear it down. You are indeed correct: the world's standards are American standards. Both need to be corrected.
Quote:It's not that democracy has failed America (yet). Let us wait and see what happens in the next 8 years. America may yet pull itself back together for another grand run if Trump is elected and turns out to be a good president. A Trump victory shows that even the worst of the Jewpocalpyse (1960-2015) wasn't enough to get American voters to completely ignore their self-interests. It's too soon to write off America.
I'm not writing off the US, I'm not writing off Europe. I see cause for hope on both continents, and reason for good men on both shores to strive for the survival and restoration of their societies. What's undeniable, however, is the sordid role that US geopolitical strategy and elite ideology have played in creating the present situation. (I also don't see any reason to place blame for this on Jewry, but that's another discussion for another time)
Quote:The problem is that America's democracy is unsuitable for running a world empire. Democracy is too slow, and the people of America aren't smart enough to know all world affairs all the time. The American people can still vote in their own interests, however, unlike the cucks and traitors of Europe. What the American people cannot do is govern other countries with any sort of reliability.
Which means, since America cannot govern, they must rule over with an iron fist the places that are important for their security. That's about the only option left, aside from nuking enemies from afar. You may think America has been doing this all along, but not really. America is actually very soft on her allies and enemies. But if Trump is elected then this will not remain. Western Europe will simply have to become a tributary state of America since they have proven themselves ungovernable. And America's enemies will have the life choked out of them.
If flaws in American policy can be laid at the feet of poorly functioning democracy, then why not flaws in European policy? You seem to have established two separate standards, by which US multiculturalism can be excused as an aberration while European multiculturalism is taken for the true content and character of all European people. Surely this is mistaken, we have to recognize the failure and betrayal of both sets of governance, and how vast the gap between elite and people has become on both sides of the Atlantic.
Again, the EU
is a tributary state of America in all but name. The US military still occupies Germany, which then increasingly bosses around the rest of Europe. The US (again, the government, not average people) pursued chaos in Libya and Syria, then praised Germany for its insane open border policy. The coup in Ukraine illustrates this fully: the US and EU acted in perfect concert in the destabilization of that country and together backed the multiculturalist propaganda (completely at odds with what most Ukrainians think) that was noted on this thread (or if I'm mistaken, it was posted somewhere on this forum).
After all, Merkel simply adopted an extreme replication of US border policy for the last 40 years (the biggest difference being that until now, German society hasn't functioned on the basis of ethnic ghettos and demographic division along with racial antipathy that's characterized the US for decades...although if things continue Germany will have to adopt that as well), she just added a bunch of transparently ridiculous humanitarian babble to go along with it.
It's US influence in Europe and the Middle East that's a massive portion, even the ultimate source, of the problem...and you want this same group to have complete control as a solution? Few things could be worse for the survival prospects of Europe.
If Trump does manage to get elected and fundamentally changes US policy, my position on this will have to be revised, but we shouldn't count on something that hasn't happened yet.