Sam:
More incredibly ignorant words! When will this end?
Capitalism hasn’t just “made America the most powerful nation.” It’s also made it the most prosperous and afforded its citizens the most freedom. Like I said, capitalism is largely responsible for doubling our average life expectancies in 200 years.
What is this nonsense about the Democrats “addressing the social ills of our country”? The leftist element of the Democrats, along with left wing radicals, have been the CAUSE of most of our social ills, from violent crime to poverty to welfare dependence. Virtually all of the social problems we associate with modern society – gang warfare, teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, broken families, welfare culture etc – exploded exponentially from the late 60′s onwards, coinciding exactly with the point at which the left started to dominate our public institutions and began to exert their influence on culture and morality. Let’s say “from the hippies onwards.”
This fact becomes even more apparent when you consider the effect of leftist liberalism on black America. An interesting book to read in this context is David Horowitz’s memoir, “Radical Son.” Horowitz was a radical Marxist during the early 70′s and was instrumental, along with other white leftists, in helping to radicalize the black ghettos. It was the left who supplied the money to the Black Panthers with which they bought drugs and guns. It was the left who did everything they could to sow the seeds of radicalism in the ghetto. Tell me: just how did that all work out for black America? Did it “empower” blacks? Did it improve their living conditions, their financial health, their futures? Or did ghetto black America decline from that time onwards into an orgy of drugs and violence and a shocking situation in which blacks became SIX times as likely to be murdered than whites? (They still are).
I’m amazed that people like you can still spread the myth about the CIA selling drugs to blacks while totally ignoring the pivotal role that black organizations like the Panthers had in sowing the seeds of drug warfare in black communities more than a decade earlier. Of course, the Panthers are heroes in the black community while Reagan, who did more to improve the black economic situation than any other President in history, is demonized. The CIA did not “pump drugs into black communities” – the San Jose Mercury’s charges on this score proved false. Yes, some CIA agents aiding the Nicaraguan contras decided to look the other way and allow them to profit from some drug sales to California, but that’s hardly a plot to addict blacks in all of America’s inner cities.
Likewise, the Jena 6 is set to become another golden nugget of black myth. The lies and distortions which were told throughout the media during that time were nothing short of disgraceful – a local Jena newspaper printed a considerable rebuttal to all of the lies and myths surrounding the case, if you care to find it. Virtually everything that was said about the Jena 6 was untrue. For instance, the initial beating was nothing to do with the noose, which in turn was nothing to do with race. Those were all outright lies perpetuated by the liberal media in order to create yet another media circus, a platform on which self-righteous liberal journalists could wax lyrical about their favorite subject – racial injustice. The truth is, those kids deserved to be charged with attempted murder, because that’s what it was. Far from the “minor scuffle” the newspapers represented the crime as, those thugs sucker punched the kid to the ground, out cold, then proceeded to stomp repeatedly on his head. Whichever way you look at it, this is “attempted murder.” They would have killed him had they not been pulled off their victim. The people of Jena were demonized as racist hicks and the thugs themselves were hailed as victims, even heroes. Such is the warped nature of the leftist mindset which dominates our media.
Nobody here is claiming that blacks have had a “fair hand” since the end of slavery. They haven’t. But all this means is, blacks have had longer to wait for equality than others in America. The history of every single race of people on this planet is a story of cruel injustice and oppression. Sure, blacks may have only been “free” for 40 years, but relative to the amount of time that everyone else has been “free,” it’s not that much of a difference. The people of Europe fought for their freedom over centuries. My ancestors from England were oppressed brutally, were never free, were peasants and serfs who were often forced into marching hundreds of miles in their bare feet sometimes waist deep in snow for days without food, water or sleep – to be sent into mindless battles with swords they could barely lift. Those who weren’t killed mostly died on the way back of their injuries. And if they did get back, it was back to lives of miserable poverty working as serfs. The people of Europe have been invaded and had their culture replaced many times too. I don’t even have to go into the “unfairness” suffered by the Jews, or the history of Asia, the terror unleashed by Genghis Khan…and that’s before we even go into the excruciating pain and suffering of the victims of Marxism – not least of all the tens of millions deliberately starved by Stalin, the tens of millions more who lived the most inhuman and cruel lives in the Gulag…and this was only a few decades ago. Compared to *them*, blacks in America have had an easy time for the last 100 years.
Who’s trying to “polish up slavery”? Please – enough of these clumsy, infantile lies. All I did was simply point out that it was an institution with a 3000 year history, the bulk of which had nothing to do with Britain or America. Who cares why slavery was ended in the West? The fact remains that it did. Perhaps you would like to inform me of any efforts made by Africans or Arabs to end slavery, a trade they had practiced for thousands of years. By the way, the Brits didn’t end slavery “to weaken the U.S.” – slavery was ended largely peacefully in most Western countries except America, where its end was anything but peaceful. There were many factors in the ending of slavery – the abolitionists were *not* just a “thorn in the side.” They helped create the popular and political atmospheres which helped end slavery. The Enlightenment, with its emphasis on natural rights and the individual, was instrumental in ending the practice. You say that the U.S. “outlawed slavery to fuel the Industrial Revolution.” This is just poppycock. The Industrial Revolution made slavery largely obsolete. But industry would have taken off with or without the end of slavery. It’s just that with the existence of a means of production far, far superior to forced labor, anyone who still practiced slavery would have been unable to compete.
There is no question that socialism is NOT debatable in a positive light. Socialism has never, in the history of the world, been able to raise or sustain general living standards. There are many philosophical, psychological and economic reasons for this. There IS no “positive light.”
