Posted on 09/04/2020 10:23:38 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The US elections will be a contest not just between political figures and rival parties but between opposing worldviews. Biden’s intention to “Europeanize” American democracy would leave the international system bereft of the democracy that saved humanity multiple times from the calamities wreaked upon it by European utopian thought.
President Donald Trump’s declaration in his Mount Rushmore speech of his intention to defend the traditional values of the United States, and Joe Biden’s declaration (backed by Bernie Sanders) of his intention to bring about a transformation of the United States, indicate that the 2020 elections will not be, as in the past, a democratic contest between two personalities and parties but a fateful contest between cultures: the Hebrew-biblical cultural of freedom from which the Anglo-Saxon democracies derived their values versus the Hellenistic culture of freedom from which the European democracies derived theirs.
There is a fundamental difference between the values of the two ancient cultures that formed the crucible of the modern West. The values of the Hebrew-biblical culture were derived from universal logic, the laws of which constitute an absolute and eternal truth and among which a harmony and coherence exists that is designed to foster a similar harmony (social justice) among human beings. The values of the Hellenistic culture, by contrast, were derived from human logic, which asserts that humanity is the standard that determines good and evil, there is no external standard for the moral judgment of human acts, and certain ideas exist that constitute an absolute truth that only elite individuals can discover and impose, by means of “keepers,” on a society that is “chained in a cave.”
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PING!
Good analysis
Wow. I always knew America is special, but this explains why. And also why if we lose in November, that’ll be it for the US. Might take awhile for the average apathetic American to really notice, but by then it’ll be too late.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON WHY THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN OUR LIFETIMES & HIGH ON THE LIST OF THE 4 MOST CRITICAL IN AMERICA’S HISTORY!
1 HOUR!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6L5C0uLFjE
He might wake up when he finds one truck towing his Range Rover out of his driveway while another rolls up to deliver a Prius or a Tesla.
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