England has still had some very significant impact on the world in the last 60 years. England is also substantially smaller than the US.
But the age of superpowers is probably over in general.
England has still had some very significant impact on the world in the last 60 years. England is also substantially smaller than the US.
But the age of superpowers is probably over in general.
WhipperSnapper
Lifer
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I'm not a particularly large fan of his and I'm definitely not a Republican, but I think he has some interesting insights sometimes even though I tend to disagree with him on many issues.
WhipperSnapper
Lifer
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Alternatively, it's possible that the OP just thought it was a fun op-ed and wanted to bring it to the attention of other P&N readers.
WhipperSnapper
Lifer
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My guess is that when the dust settles, the U.S. will be in significantly worse shape than the U.K.
Looking back to see whatever it is that could have caused you to assume I was referring to you rather than Buchanan, I guess you did sort of imply it was you who were first up with this opinion, but it's him and not you, as far as I know, that's getting anything approaching real attention. Nobody pays any attention to P & N, but Buchanan is nationally known. So the only thing I can think of to call you would be Chicken Tiny.
WhipperSnapper
Lifer
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Apparently my thread is a repost:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2319501&enterthread=y
<Edit> (Looks like my thread and this thread were merged.)
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2319501&enterthread=y
<Edit> (Looks like my thread and this thread were merged.)
WhipperSnapper
Lifer
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You have it exactly backwards - which explains why people voted for Obama when he was obviously a radical whose heart beats in synch with Rev Wright. Now he wages a war on prosperity, and seeks to dismantle the structure of economy right in front of peoples faces. Obama resembles a banana leader like his buddy Chavez. The celebrity election that was all form and no substance was our first banana republic election. Obama spun fairy tales - and since too many people love lies more than truth they bit. Many are now sorry and independents are fleeing Obama.
Of course it was natural these things happen since we have a degenerated populace that lives in a psychotic haze where the charade of global warming is real, where boys should marry each other, and where our enemies only attack because we defend ourselves.
Dick Morris is also correct about a looming "catastrophe" if people dont wake up and stop collapsing into a banana republic with barely a whimper. Fifty years of liberal education and media have people thinking up is really down and vice versa. Obama is an enemy to American security and prosperity. The awake people saw it before the election.
I wonder what moonbeam would make of this man's self hating?
Is he a closet homosectual?
Or does he just like dick?
I guess we have a bad system then.
edit: of course you entirely miss the point and concept. The system has no control at all. All systems are limited by the people running them.
LOL, you sound like some crazed neo-nazi that wants to make sure everybody conforms to your narrow view of "normal".
Let me guess, you think McCain was a valid alternative?
Sure I talk to people in real life. Polls show most of my views are in line with the majority. Global warming, taxes, health care, faux marriage - I am out of step with nobody on most things (not all). It was the recent Gallup Poll that had self identified conservatives at 40%
Gallup: ?Conservatives? Are Single-Largest Ideological Group
?Thus far in 2009, 40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal.?
http://rossputin.com/blog/inde...ves-are-single-largest
Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say their views have grown more conservative
"PRINCETON, NJ -- Despite the results of the 2008 presidential election, Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, say their political views in recent years have become more conservative rather than more liberal, 39% to 18%, with 42% saying they have not changed. While independents and Democrats most often say their views haven't changed, more members of all three major partisan groups indicate that their views have shifted to the right rather than to the left"
http://www.gallup.com/poll/121...Moving.aspx?CSTS=alert
So there you are.
Gallup: ?Conservatives? Are Single-Largest Ideological Group
?Thus far in 2009, 40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal.?
http://rossputin.com/blog/inde...ves-are-single-largest
Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say their views have grown more conservative
"PRINCETON, NJ -- Despite the results of the 2008 presidential election, Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, say their political views in recent years have become more conservative rather than more liberal, 39% to 18%, with 42% saying they have not changed. While independents and Democrats most often say their views haven't changed, more members of all three major partisan groups indicate that their views have shifted to the right rather than to the left"
http://www.gallup.com/poll/121...Moving.aspx?CSTS=alert
So there you are.
I think I know why people like Buchanan see the end of the world and it goes to the heart of bigotry. The Taliban are having the same experience as Buchanan is too.
Bigotry is the delusional belief that there are good people and bad people, people who think like you do and people who think differently. We are all bigotized by our surrounding culture and some of us are born in ones that are very backward like the Taliban or Southern fundamentalist culture or traditional Roman Catholicism.
Unfortunately for bigots, owing to modern technology the ancient world of micro-cultures is giving way to a universal world culture that is an admixture or potpourri of all of them, a new liberal leaning modernism that is destroying traditional bigotries. The transmission of culture has passed from grandfather to the radio and TV, the cell phone and the Internet. Small minded insular bigoted little pricks everywhere are sensing the end and it is the end for them. Bigotry dies where there is no insularity and ignorance. The end is here for the sexual control of women by men which is what most of it is about. Most of what is fucked up in the world is the result of male inferiority and it's symptom, the inflated male ego.
Bigotry is the delusional belief that there are good people and bad people, people who think like you do and people who think differently. We are all bigotized by our surrounding culture and some of us are born in ones that are very backward like the Taliban or Southern fundamentalist culture or traditional Roman Catholicism.
Unfortunately for bigots, owing to modern technology the ancient world of micro-cultures is giving way to a universal world culture that is an admixture or potpourri of all of them, a new liberal leaning modernism that is destroying traditional bigotries. The transmission of culture has passed from grandfather to the radio and TV, the cell phone and the Internet. Small minded insular bigoted little pricks everywhere are sensing the end and it is the end for them. Bigotry dies where there is no insularity and ignorance. The end is here for the sexual control of women by men which is what most of it is about. Most of what is fucked up in the world is the result of male inferiority and it's symptom, the inflated male ego.
Jaskalas
Lifer
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Red scare? He'd be calling them Communists then. Perhaps you need to be educated to realize socialism is not the Soviet Union, and we are very much socialist today. There's no red scare, what we have is a great disdain over the abuse of power our government currently enjoys.
As for the New Deal, it was that which ignited our great use of tax dollars to abuse the government's role. It is the enabler by which the government has transformed, evolved, and grown. The New Deal did not just spark a loss of freedom, but a loss of constitution entirely.
You cannot attack the Patriot Act without recognizing the tax dollars and precedence that allowed it to happen.
Convince the people of what, that the government owns GM and several other businesses? Being a dependant is a loss of freedom. It is involuntary servitude and is no better than slavery.
Lemon law
Lifer
- Nov 6, 2005
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We must all remember that Pat Buchanan started out his political career as Spiro Agnew's speechwriter. And pretty soon ole Pat transformed a not very bright but likable Spiro into a polarizing fellow many loved to hate. But Pat Buchanan could only ride the Vice President so far, once Spiro got nailed for bribery and resigned as VP, everyone on the Spiro band wagon ran out of gas.
For Pat's next delusion, he turned politician in his own right, but his xenophobic brand of populism never quite seemed to catch on in the GOP. But anyone who can coin the phrase " nattering naybobs of negativism" has a future in journalism
even though Pat has never shrived to be anything but a journalist of the yellow dog type, a well spring of semi plausible ideas, that lack even the attempt to prove or polish into a coherent whole. In other words, Pat Buchanan is a poor man Joe Biden or Newt Gindrich who also belong to the new idea of the week club, but Pat is at least smart enough to make a living hawking half baked ideas. The problem is not in Pat, the problem is that this country has too many idiots willing to pay for those ideas.
But at least having two currently running Pat Buchanan threads is a welcome distraction from all those Sarah Palin said threads, especially if you like trading a headache for an upset stomach
For Pat's next delusion, he turned politician in his own right, but his xenophobic brand of populism never quite seemed to catch on in the GOP. But anyone who can coin the phrase " nattering naybobs of negativism" has a future in journalism
even though Pat has never shrived to be anything but a journalist of the yellow dog type, a well spring of semi plausible ideas, that lack even the attempt to prove or polish into a coherent whole. In other words, Pat Buchanan is a poor man Joe Biden or Newt Gindrich who also belong to the new idea of the week club, but Pat is at least smart enough to make a living hawking half baked ideas. The problem is not in Pat, the problem is that this country has too many idiots willing to pay for those ideas.
But at least having two currently running Pat Buchanan threads is a welcome distraction from all those Sarah Palin said threads, especially if you like trading a headache for an upset stomach
IronWing
No Lifer
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Nationalized health insurance would lift a huge burden off the economy by shifting resources away from the current wasteful private insurance system, resources that could be used for more productive activities. Nationalized health insurance would unleash an entrepreneurial wave as folks, full of ideas and purpose, could pursue their dreams of building new businesses without fear of medical bankruptcy. Nationalized health insurance would level the playing field for US manufacturers by removing the burden of employer-based insurance where employers who provide coverage are subsidizing those who don't and competing against foreign companies who don't have this burden.
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