- 04 Jul 2011 18:50
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You are right, the differences are vast, especially economically and religiously. The point is that the right in America is having cross-cultural dialogue with the right in Europe, overcoming traditional hatreds of eachother. Pragmatically, that is a start.
Call it White fear, call it greed, call it whatever the case may be It's a matter of practical thought: Despite the crimes and decadence of Western civilization and Americanism in general, do you want the world to be governed by Western, secular, meritocratic and prosperous nations or by third world hellholes, theocracies, and entitlement societies that demand handouts for their failing regimes and dysfunctional societies? We don't need to do a psychoanalysis of the xenophobic evil White man's mind to point out that countries like Iraq, Somalia, Mexico, and Brazil are failed societies. The right wing never claimed have beautiful souls, we don't have ideological purity and living sainthood, we have practical solutions. Nationalists care about making their own society a better place, not subsidizing others for their failures.
As for the rest of your analysis, it's spot on.
Are you sure that's only a slight difference? I would say that the Tea Party is the diametric opposite of anything that people are trying to do in Europe right now.
You are right, the differences are vast, especially economically and religiously. The point is that the right in America is having cross-cultural dialogue with the right in Europe, overcoming traditional hatreds of eachother. Pragmatically, that is a start.
The Tea Party and the European Right are expressions of the same basic feeling among frightened Whites of their "inability to control the world".
Call it White fear, call it greed, call it whatever the case may be It's a matter of practical thought: Despite the crimes and decadence of Western civilization and Americanism in general, do you want the world to be governed by Western, secular, meritocratic and prosperous nations or by third world hellholes, theocracies, and entitlement societies that demand handouts for their failing regimes and dysfunctional societies? We don't need to do a psychoanalysis of the xenophobic evil White man's mind to point out that countries like Iraq, Somalia, Mexico, and Brazil are failed societies. The right wing never claimed have beautiful souls, we don't have ideological purity and living sainthood, we have practical solutions. Nationalists care about making their own society a better place, not subsidizing others for their failures.
As for the rest of your analysis, it's spot on.