Omphalos <omphalos@frogbutt.com> wrote in news:Xns93B46DF0BBB39Z@
65.32.1.7:

Why do you think the Left blames America for every evil under the
sun and spreads this poison both at home and worldwide? For years,
liberals have encouraged hatred of America and lionized anyone who
abused our country, while demonizing those with the temerity to
expose what they were doing.

America is a great country. It has a great constitution. But there
are a lot of Americans who hate that constitution and they are by no
means all on the left wing.

A few reasons why the Left hates America (and why they're wrong):

Liberals deliberately mischaracterize the American founding and the
history of slavery - and they're afraid of the truth about these
matters.

Slavery was a bad thing. Several of the founding fathers had moral
qualms about it, though the institution was widely practised by
Europeans abroad at the time. It was Quakers and religious
Christians in the north who opposed it most vigorously and their
view finally became that of the Republican Party, which stopped the
expansion of slavery into the new territories then opening up.
Eventually this brought on the civil war, as the federal government
opposed the southern block of states in the new territories.

American imperialism? Only the United States has given the world an
example of how to deal with conquered nations without resorting to
imperialist measures.

American imperialism has been more economic than military up to now.
America has also managed to infect Japan and Western Europe with
this new kind of imperialism. It will be interesting to see how
that eventually affects the balance of military power in the world.
Today's sleeping giant is the same one that some seers spoke of
nearly a century ago. Russia has resources, an educated populace
and, if she ever figures out the difference between capitalism and
theft (a distinction not too clear in the US these days but at least
buffered by a body of law), she could become a formidable part of
the world's economy.

Canada will also increasingly show signs of independence from the
American marketplace upon which she depends for most of her trade
(Canada is the US's biggest trading partner--go figure what that
makes the US to Canada as a trading partner). That's simply the way
of history. Canada has been very underpopulated and much smaller as
a market than the US. This is slowly, but inevitably changing and
as it does, Canada will show more and more signs of independence as
the needs of its own market become a larger and larger factor.

This is not "prophecy" or some psychic prediction. It's just plain
economic common sense.

America must learn to adjust to these economic changes or feel the
effect of failure to do so.

Capitalism: The Left sees it as intrinsically evil - and this
hatred fuels a great deal of liberal anti-Americanism.

Actually, some of the most effective capitalists I've seen were
marxists who understood capitalism all too well. The problem with
capitalism is not the basic idea itself, it's that grey area between
capitalism and theft.

American women: Oppressed? This liberal myth founders on the truth:
women in the West are better off than anywhere else in the world.

This is not the best argument you could use. Are women treated
worse than men, better than men or the same. I would submit that
there are situations in our culture where all three of these things
happen.

Civil rights "leaders" lie about the proportion of blacks in
front-line military service and other issues.

The military is one of the truly equal-opportunity employers around.
It's not surprising to see a more-than-proportional representation
of minorities working for such an employer. Try telling Colin
Powell that he was discriminated against in the military! The
proportion is probably correct. But it IS being misrepresented by
the left.

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