Posted on 08/21/2009 7:58:02 AM PDT by BGHater
By way of propaganda, in the early 1970s, the "Soviet Union" permitted several thousand of its inhabitants to emigrate ("You see how free our country is? Here is the emigration!").
I emigrated (with my family) to the U.S.A. because this is the most powerful of the free countries and hence most capable of survival, defending freedom anywhere in the world.
As far as freedom in the United States is concerned, I am not disappointed. Since the day of my arrival, I have been writing and publishing what I have wanted to. But will the U.S.A. be able to survive and defend freedom anywhere in the world?
America achieved Independence as a result of the war with England. The latter stopped the war, since in the 18th century it was impossible to deliver enough timely supplies to the British army across the Atlantic during the war. Ironically, the Atlantic and the Pacific have defended the U.S.A. in the 19th and 20th centuries as well.
Canada is not independent-it is part of the Commonwealth of Nations. But it is as free as the United States.
I still remember my surprise when I saw the engravings and cartoons of America at the time of its struggle for independence, with this inscription in the middle of them: "The American Revolution". So it was a revolution! Against a British autocracy? So Britain remains a pre-revolutionary autocracy!
Here is a text from the Britannica article about how a British official named Winston Churchill, who described Nazi Germany as a mortal danger without any compromise or reservation. Here is my Britannica article (vol. 5, 750):
On May 10, 1940, with the news of the German invasion of the Low Countries, [Neville] Chamberlain [the Prime Minister], resigned . . . Chamberlain advised the king to call Churchill to be prime minister.
Possibly, this appointment of Churchill influenced Hitler in his decision to switch his war from Western Europe to the invasion of Stalin's Russia (he was routed and committed suicide).
In the U.S.A., the president is elected by a majority of all psychiatrically normal adults who want to vote for him. Thus, President Obama was elected possibly because those who favored his healthcare program constituted sufficiently many extra voters for him (while my neighbor called it scornfully "socialism").
In any case, possibly none of those who voted for Obama and least of all Obama himself have spoken about the "People's Republic of China" the way Churchill spoke about "National-Socialist Germany."
So instead of the American Churchill of today to be in charge of the survival of the U.S.A., elected was a young man who called the U.S.A. a "partner" of the "People's Republic of China," which killed several times more people without any legal process than did Hitler's "National-Socialist Germany."
The expected Obama's "revolution," evidently to change the Constitution, possibly aims ultimately at absolutism inside the U.S.A. with him as the permanent dictator, subservient to the "People's Republic of China."
Here is another important fact in the survival of a country versus its non-survival or death:
I do not know of a single American who has heard of Chi Haotian, the Minister of National Defense of China up to 2003 (he is now 80 years old), who has read his explanations as to why China should annihilate the U.S.A. and lead the world before the U.S.A. tries (of which Chi was convinced) to annihilate the People's Republic of China.
What about the U.S. universities, which produce more professors and other degreed graduates per one million inhabitants than the universities of any other country?
Way back in 1987, Allan Bloom, a "professor of social thought" of the University of Chicago, published a 392-page book entitled The Closing of the American Mind and subtitled How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students.
My question is: If this is what higher education in the U.S.A. has been doing, how is Allan Bloom or his books or his University of Chicago different and why?
Social thought or any other thought may be a thought of a person of genius or a cliché.
My uncle Yakov Mints used to publish in Russian and in French a magazine entitled Genius and Insanity. According to the studies in the magazine, no one except another genius can tell the difference between genius and insanity, since both may be equally beyond the understanding of anyone except another genius. Let us recall Einstein (1879-1955). Who understood his thought, when he expressed it, that there is no time in general, since every point of space has its own time?
It may also be relevant to note that it was Einstein who drew the attention of President Roosevelt in 1939 to the probability of the production of nuclear bombs by Nazi Germany.
What if Hitler was smart enough first to produce (secretly) atom bombs and then attack England, the U.S.A., and Russia. They would have surrendered as did Japan to the U.S.A. after the latter's nuclear strike.
But how has Allan Bloom contributed to the "opening of the American mind" and has otherwise been the opposite of today's American "higher education" he criticizes on the 392 pages of his book? Displayed on the first (unnumbered) front matter page are the titles of his own four books. The first book is Plato's Republic (translation and editing), the second book is the translation and editing of Politics and the Arts: Rousseau's Letter to d'Alembert; the third book is the translation and editing of Rousseau's Emile, and the fourth, Shakespeare's Politics. Is this not "academic education" at its most conventional, trite, and belated?
Predictably, I have on my shelves The Republic of Plato, translated by Francis Cornford (Trinity College, Cambridge), and published by the Oxford Universitiy Press in 1941, 1945, and 1973. So what should a reader like me do? To read Allan Bloom's translation, as superior to Cornford's? What if I found Plato's book of little interest despite all the worship of him in Western "academic education" for many centuries?
Same here, I woke up in France on that morning.
In these dismal times years ago a few lonely brave souls fought and saved the honor of the rest and, civilization.
These times have come again ....
I know people from socialist countries who came here to get away from all that.
They are very upset to see America going the same way.
The veterans attending the veterans’ day event in 2008 had similar sentiments -
we sacrificed so much fighting against the crap that just got elected.
The Russian I work with just chuckled at me when BO was elected, saying America made a big mistake, but deserves it.
I still like you Vlad...
LEV:
WELCOME TO THE PARTY PAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why did we bother to fight the Cold War, only to elect a Communist? Nikita Khrushev may have been right: “Your grandchildren will be Communists”.
Liberalism is Communism by the glass...
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened.”
- Norman Thomas, Socialist Party presidential candidate, 1940, 1944 and 1948 explaining why he quit running for president.
I was immunized against Socialism by living through the Jimmy Carter debacle in the 70’s. A big problem today is too many voters who do not remember those times. It is painful, but hopefully life under Bam will immunize a couple more generations.
I have a Russian friend who came to the USA 10 years ago with about 10,000. He never went to college. He worked 14 hours a day for 10 years, and now makes about 100,000 a month trading palm oil and sugar from his home.He just turned 40. He loves America, but he believes it will fail soon if we don’t rebel against the onslaught of Marxism. Here are some of his comments:
You have 2 major organizations who intend to have Marxism take over America. The NEA, which has been preaching socialism to children for 40 years, and the ACLU which was founded by a communist.
All of your journalism schools are Marxist, so your media is Marxist. No rocket science there.
You have elected a Marxist POTUS, with the help of a Marxist media. Don’t Americans read history? Didn’t Americans research Obama? They all have computers. I spent 4 hours on my computer, and I knew Obama was a Marxist. Americans have become lazy in the mind, and this will destroy you. America must rise against the Marxist to survive. Why are the Republicans such cowards?
You had a great leader with Reagan. He wiped out my country, and this allowed me to emigrate to America. You have elected nothing but globalists and socialists since. Now you have a Marxist who takes orders from Goldman Sachs.
Who does Goldman Sachs answer to? Soros? China? Arabs? Themselves? Who the hell knows!
I talked to him last night. He is preparing to fly to Philadelphia to settle his son into his dormitory at Wharton School of Business. His son is 16.
The American Dream is still alive for (legal) immigrants. But for how long? Are we still strong willed enough to fight these Marxist ba$tards? I think we are!
I recommend you spend all your words on someone like Rep. Michelle Bachmann or Sen. DeMint and stop typing the word Marxist.
“Americans have become lazy in the mind, and this will destroy you. Why are the Republicans such cowards?”
That’s it, in a nutshell. That sums up our entire fight right there.
btt
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