America always has been that shining city on the hill.
Without it, where will people go? (And would someone mind telling me that?)
Think about it. In this upcoming election, and afterward.
American leadership: the world's best hope?
Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆
2012/08/20 22:58:15
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President Ronald Reagan said it best:
Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a
Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the
midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, “We
don’t know how lucky we are.” And the Cuban stopped and said, “How lucky
you are! I had someplace to escape to.” In that sentence he told us the
entire story. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to.
This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is
beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to
sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the
long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this
election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or
whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little
intellectual élite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us
better than we can plan them ourselves.
Ronald W. Reagan, 40th President of the United States. Official portrait, 1981.
That's the deal. We're not just talking about our own way of life. We're talking about the greatest refuge of freedom in a world getting rapidly drunk on the schemes of one despot after another.
Read More: http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2012/08/20...
Do you really believe that the US is the only country to be considered free?
Do you really think you are the shining city on the hill?
Do you even aknowledge how paternalistic this sounds to somebody outside the US?
What does your view make of a lot of democratic countries in the world?
US satellites? Maybe you would like to think that!
But no!
Believing you nr. 1, believing even you are special to God, makes a country forget to be reflective to domestic and international problems.
You are the chosen one, so why listen to the views of others?
Why keep international treaties, demand however other countries to keep them?
Democracy American style, without relating to the cultural and historical background of another country.
Towards other countries you have no interest to achievements they made, you won't have to learn from their mistakes.
There is no need to aknowledge those feelds of science, health, education, justice, freedom where other countries do a better job than the US.
You neither have to accept your own countries negative side!
You neither have to learn another language.
The whole world speaks English! Doesn't it?
If you want to say now I hate the US.
My answer is a very clearly: NO!
If the majority votes someone (Obama, Romney, Ron Paul), the rest must accept.
If the rest doesn't accept, there is no basis for freedom.
The "public" is the "king".
What's the difference?
I call myself free.
"How often have you heard people refer to America as a Democracy? When was the last time that you heard America referred to as a Republic? There is a very good reason that our Pledge of Allegiance refers to our country as a Republic and there is a very good reason that our Declaration of Independence and our constitution do not even mentioned the word "democracy".
Many people are under the false impression our form of government is a democracy, or representative democracy. This is of course completely untrue. The Founders were extremely knowledgeable about the issue of democracy and feared a democracy as much as a monarchy. They understood that the only entity that can take away the people's freedom is their own government, either by being too weak to protect them from external threats or by becoming too powerful and taking over every aspect of life."
http://www.stopthenorthameric...