A Left-Wing America Stands Alone

Front Page Magazine ^ | December 26, 2013 | Daniel Greenfield

[IbJensen]

American progressives like to think of their country as backward and reactionary compared to Europe. And they have never been more right than now when Europe and the rest of the First World have gone right while America under Obama has been left back.

Recently Australia, Japan and Norway welcomed in conservative governments. Tony Abbott, Australia’s new prime minister, is a former heavyweight boxer who attended Oxford and is putting a spoke in the wheel of the Global Warming ecohoax. Japan is casting off its pacifism and standing up to the People’s Republic of China and Norway gave its left-wing government the boot and moved in “Iron Erma” in a coalition with the libertarian Progress Party which opposes taxes and immigration and supports free enterprise.

Australia, Japan and Norway are not outliers. The majority of First World countries now have conservative governments.

Canada has embraced a patriotic foreign policy and energy exploration under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his conservative Likud party have continued to move Israel’s economy toward free enterprise. And even in the UK, Prime Minister David Cameron, for all his follies, is a conservative, even if he is more McCain than DeMint, and has pushed for deregulation and welfare reform.

Sweden’s center-right coalition government has won re-election for the first time in a century. Norway and Sweden, countries that Americans used to consider the very embodiments of Socialism, now both have conservative governments.

In Germany, Angela Merkel will serve a third term as chancellor. The Netherlands still has a conservative government which has come out against multiculturalism and the welfare state.

In Spain, the center-right People’s Party won the biggest majority of any party in three decades and is projected to win reelection. In Poland, the center-right Civic Platform continues to govern. In Greece, it’s the center-right New Democracy. In Portugal, it’s the Social Democratic Party and the People’s Party (somewhat on the right, despite their names). In Iceland, it’s the conservative Independence Party and the Progressive Party (also on the right, despite its name.)

Even Europe’s left-wing parties have had to adapt to the new economic environment. Denmark’s Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons, has suffered a severe setback in municipal elections and is scrambling to hold her left-wing government together. And even Thorning-Schmidt only made it this far by embracing welfare reform, cutting corporate taxes and slashing unemployment benefits.

The rule of the radical left in the United States is very much an outlier in the rest of the First World where conservative and center-right parties predominate. The conventional First World response to the economic crisis has been to cut spending and reform welfare, while in the United States has spent more money than ever before and expanded welfare.

Much of Europe now favors less federalism and less immigration. The United States has expanded its federal government dramatically and both Democratic and Republican leaders support amnesty for illegal aliens at a time when immigration is politically toxic everywhere else.

The American left insists that historical inevitability is on its side, but it has lost nearly everywhere else.

America stands alone under the rule of the left, in uncontrolled spending, uncontrolled immigration and the iron hand of the welfare state.

America’s massive wealth and resources have allowed the left to act as if it could borrow against them indefinitely to finance its big government schemes. Smaller countries don’t have the luxury of running up infinite debts and not worrying about how they will be paid back or pretending that impossible rates of economic growth will compensate for trillion dollar deficits.

America is the left’s economic fantasyland because it has so much that they imagine that it will take a long time to bankrupt.

Europe is dominated by parliamentary democracies where it would have been difficult for an executive to stay in office on popularity and racial guilt after his actual policies had been completely discredited. In a parliamentary democracy, the 2010 midterm elections wouldn’t have just meant a Republican House of Representatives, but would have booted Obama out of the White House.

Conservatives denounce populist politics in America, but it’s actually the remnants of the system that safeguards political power from populist elections that has kept the Senate and the White House in the hands of the left while turning over the House of Representatives to the Republicans creating a crisis in which the populist body could do nothing, while Obama unilaterally ushered in an imperial presidency.

Another major difference is that America has a higher percentage of minorities than most other First World countries. In many First World nations, the left has assembled minorities into a welfare coalition. But such a coalition is much more potent in the United States because of demographics.

Finally, there is the Obama factor.

Hillary Clinton would probably have lost in 2012. Most Democratic hacks would have. But the cult of personality built around Obama by the news and entertainment industry has been very hard to breach. Only the “If you like your health plan” lie has finally put a serious dent in his likability and trust ratings.

Obama is something unique. He’s the end product of a venture by liberal billionaires from the financial and tech sectors to build a radical Trojan horse politician. They invested a great deal of money into their project and the dividends have been huge. No other First World country has been victimized by such a calculated scheme or had so many resources invested in hijacking its democracy.

Some 6 billion dollars were raised and spent in the 2012 election. Those are astronomical amounts of money and they are probably only the tip of the iceberg. Beating that kind of spending isn’t easy.

While the rest of the First World moves on, America remains trapped in the defunct economic and political grip of the left. After dedicating enormous resources to taking over the Democratic Party and then the country, the left has turned the United States of America into its Soviet Union, a country out of time, its economy and society wracked by the discredited political and economic theories of the left.

[MacNaughton]

33 The beauty of the U.S. is that continued liberalism will mealy melt the bonds of the states to each other. As blue states grow fat under big government they will sink while the more conservative ones will continue to float. We are still, after all, 50 semi-autonomous nations, most of which are actually center-right.

It is important to retain some optimism and hope in these extremely troubling times. I no longer think that the U.S. is a center-right country. The millenials, our future, have embraced BHO and turned their backs on Christianity. More and more, I find myself identifying with being a Christian than an American. Most of us Freepers knew in SEP 2008 during the financial crisis that the U.S. was headed down the path of decline and that BHO would do everything in his power to accelerate that - and he has. But the theme of Revelation is that God wins in the end.

12/29/2008 – The Wall Street Journal printed an article entitled, “The End of the U.S.?” about Russian professor and political scientist, Igor Panarin, who 1st predicted in 1998 that the U.S. would probably disintegrate into 6 parts by JUL 2010. "There's a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will occur. … One could rejoice in that process ... .But if we're talking reasonably, it's not the best scenario -- for Russia." Though Russia would become more powerful on the global stage, he said, its economy would suffer because it currently depended heavily on the dollar and on trade with the U.S. He forecasted financial and demographic changes within the U.S. which would provoke a political crisis in which the wealthier states would withhold funds from the federal government. These wealthier states would effectively secede from the Union, leading to social unrest, civil war, national division, and intervention of foreign powers. The break up would also lead to mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation.

Panarin's WSJ article

Russian Professor Predicts the USA Disintegrates
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6/27/2013 The Glue Holding America Together
by Victor Davis Hanson

[MacNaughton]

Many idiots who call themselves Americans parrot the mantra' Diversity is our greatest strength.' That is a gigantic load of horse manure! America has all these factions that huddle together and listen to the most amazing imbeciles that purport to speak for each of these fractured segments of our population. ...

Agreed. We are living through the culmination of Gramsci's "Long March through the institutions" and the Frankfurt School's lethal infection of "cultural marxism."

The History of Political Correctness
YouTube, video run time = 00:22:27 minutes

[2ndDivisionVet]

Vice President Hubert Humphrey looks like a Bircher these days.

[Amigo04]

Your tagline = Martial Law

[wastoute]

Everything you sat is true. And more. Yet the Republirats don’t seem to see it.

[listenhillary]

My tagline = Martial Law freedom.

Few can handle it. Fewer know that it is slipping away and almost gone.

It was the basis of our government for over 140 some years until the progressives wanted to use government to create their Utopia through government intervention. That worked out well, didn't it?

[Monorprise]

Very insiteful article. Obama really is a cultural and political Trojan horse, any other democrat would have lost in 2012. Racial guilt and massive leftist media and entertainment media domination have given him the critical edge he needed to barely scrape by the massive failures of his actual totalitarian policies.

The left has dumped untold of sums into this enterprise for generation. This is particular evident in how they took over Colorado, and demostrated by the absoulte fantaicy world Obama voters live in regarding any thing that is not on their News & Entertainment networks.(like John Stewart)

Does anyone else notice how none thing is news to them unless someone like John Steward or MSNBC says it is? It doesn’t matter how long we have known about it, they discovered it and take it seriously only when leftist networks decide they want to acknowledge it.

Its like we are dealing with a population that doesn’t have a mind of their own anymore...? Or perhaps more realistically a population that is so ideologically bent against us and our messages that they will not accept anything we say or they see without their political leaders acknowledgement.

I guess the only other possibility is that they really do think and act with one collective mind.

[IbJensen]

Great observations about an unfortunately declining nation.

[Albion Wilde]

Greenfield is brilliant, as always, in this article, typically correct in all of his analyses

I agree; he is the very best right-writer today. But I did take issue with his statement "Much of Europe now favors less federalism...[whereas] The United States has expanded its federal government dramatically..." I believe this is an incorrect use of the word "federalism", which originally meant "a system of government in which power is divided between a national (federal) government and various regional governments." I think he meant to say "centralized" government, or "government concentrated in DC", since the entire thrust of recent events has been to shrink or countermand local governments. As examples, the Holder DOJ prosecuted the State of Arizona for trying to uphold existing Federal statutes on illegal immigration; and federal judges have been overturning traditional marriage statutes enacted by state legislatures or referenda, and so on.

[Albion Wilde]

We also need “bulldog” committee chairmen who are not afraid to tear into the Democrats with a vengeance.

I can think of one with lipstick!

[fwdude]

...two million people, most of them young people, marched on the streets of Paris to protest "gay marriage." That would not happen in America.

First, the French have much more free time with their 35-hour (or is it less now?) work weeks and 2+ months of vacation.

Second, the French put in power the perverts who counterfeited marriage.

[IbJensen]

...the French put in power the perverts who counterfeited marriage.

And so did Americans!

[ourworldawry]

“Even morally, we are seeing the rest of the world waking up to traditional values, while America sinks further into the Obama cesspool.”

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Perhaps it is the Lord, pouring out His
Spirit on men in the last days...awakening those who will be awakened...calling out His people from the ‘world’, and her sins....separating the goats from the lambs.

This is what I’m getting from it. Anyone else?

[KTM rider]

Seems like the train really started to derail with state sanctioned murder (Rowe vs Wade) mass abortions replaced americans with illegal immigrants pouring in and reproducing exponentially

america is now a foreign country ruled by an aristocracy