Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder"
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@aurelo54 Yes, that's a rather rambling definition of "Manifest Destiny". Many cultures throughout history had similar myths about their origins and destinies. Pre-Columbian Aztec/Mexica had a similar myth called Aztlan.
France had a "manifest destiny" myth which led to the "reign of terror" and a love for the National Razor, a symbol of the extreme mob democracy which allowed Napoleon to later sway this mob into an Army which swept across half of Europe and the Middle-East.
Napoleon has a nice resting place in Paris. I've been there, although I enjoyed the Latin Quarter a bit more.
Ronald Wilson Reagan shared this "mystic" vision of America, "a shining city upon a hill" which echoes back to our Puritan origins. In his 1989 farewell address, he said:
"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life. But I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. In my mind, it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds, living in harmony and peace."
The Puritans got some things very wrong, like the climate of NE North America, and believed if they could pray hard enough, G_d would change it for them. The climate didn't change, the Puritans adapted and turned it into one of the richest most successful places on earth. At least until the Irish arrived. [just a joke].
Trump is no different than those Puritans, he will pray for peace but prepare for war. NATO will pay its fair share to protect all democracies from enemies, both foreign and DOMESTIC, that's in the oath of office.
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@aurelo54 Sure, I get the "settler colonial" ideology which has morphed into a self-righteous religion of virtue signaling fanatics. I get the same vibe from them I got from fundamentalist Christians in the 1970s, predicting the Satanists will be vanquished by the coming of the Lord.
I'll go with Solzhenitsyn, and he was really a narrow minded Christian himself, but wrote this universal truth about humans: "The line between good and evil does not run between states, nor between political parties, but right through every human heart."
Shakespeare said it, too: "The Fault, Dear Brutus, is not in the stars, but in ourselves".
Pogo, the cartoon, 1970: "Sir, I've met the enemy, and he is us".
Charity begins at home, and so does personally responsibility.
"The State is the Individual, The Individual is the State" - Benito Mussolini, Doctrine of Fascism 1932. Sounds woke/Marxist to me.
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