PREVENTING OUR NATION'S SUICIDE # 2

  PREVENTING OUR NATION'S SUICIDE # 2

        In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Monday, September 15, 2014

 

We continue with excerpts from the book America - Imagine a World without Her - by Dinesh D'Souza. As a nation we are living in the twilight zone. Help Dinesh and each other to save America from the suicide and subversion of traditional American values. We become a kind of Obama's European American.             

 

" In this book, I (Dinesh) intend to refute the progressive critique and provide a new understanding of what America means and why America is worth preserving. I will examine the historical critique by asking a simple question: As a result of the events of American history, are the people on the bottom better off or worse off?

 

In other words, are the native Indians today better off or worse because of the arrival of Columbus and Western civilization? Are blacks today better or worse because their ancestors were hauled here as slaves? Are Mexicans who now live on the American side of the border better or worse than Mexicans whose land was conquered during the Mexican War? This is a way of examining history by considering its current impact.

 

I also intend to argue that America invented something new in the world. There are very few truly world-changing inventions. Fire is one of them.The wheel is another. The invention of agriculture is a third. In this book I will show that America is a society based upon perhaps the most important invention of all time: the invention of wealth creation.

 

For most of human history, wealth, wealth was presumed to be  finite. Consider a boy on the playground with ten marbles. How can he get more marbles? There is only one way. He has to take someone else's marbles. In the same way, wealth was mostly in land and the only way to get land was to take it. Conquest, in other words, was the natural mode of human acquisition...

 

Recognizing that conquest had been the universal ethic, America developed a new ethic, the ethic of wealth creation. America is founded on the understanding that wealth can be created through innovation and enterprise. Through the system of technological capitalism, we can go from ten marbles to twenty marbles without taking anyone's marbles.

 

Obviously there were  inventors and merchants around before America. But America is the first society to be based on invention and trade. America is the capitalist society par excellence. I will show how this new system of wealth creation is fair and just, how it produces a better life for little guys in America and around the world. I will not shy away from addressing the progressive arguments that earning is itself exploitation, that profits are plunder, and that America's global actions are a disguised form of thievery.

 

I intend to turn the progressive critique on its head. I will demonstrate that the progressives are the real thieves, in that they use the power of the state to seize property and possessions of people who have earned them. In the name of ordinary citizens, the progressives have declared war on wealth creators... their policies lead to stagnation, impoverishment, indebtedness, and decline - all in evidence. (Any other U.S. President would be ashamed to have fifty million U.S. citizens on food stamps. ghk) ...

 

Most recently, in order to quell dissent, the progressives are implementing a chilling policy of national surveillance and selective prosecution - using the power of the police to harass and subdue their opposition. Ultimately what the progressives seek is a suicide of national identity, a dissolution of the American era. This involves not merely a diminution of America but a diminution of Americans.

 

I intend to blow the whistle on these people, starting with Obama and continuing with Hillary Clinton and the whole progressive menagerie. Once the ordinary American understands how moral terms have been inverted, and how he is being conned by self styled partisans, he will rise up and repudiate his new oppressors who are none other than his old oppressors under a new name." ...

 

GEORGE H. KUBECK