Liberal Dream of a World Without America As It Is

"No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly." --George Washington

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The American Form of government was under assault from the beginning. Alexander Hamilton held a political philosophy that embraced a highly centralized government, and he spoke out against the nation's first constitution, The Articles of Confederation. He felt the federal government needed more power, that there should be a permanent chief executive who could veto all state legislation, and be an American king. Hamilton believed in mercantilism, where the government would have the power to subsidize business, making the corporations more supportive of the growing centralized system. As the first treasury secretary he supported a continual increase of taxation, and a government engineered economy that accumulated an ever-increasing national debt, used protectionist policies, and believed the United States should be the next great empire.

There were others that believed in utopianism, which included concepts like "leveling" (redistribution of wealth), a concept many of the founders that supported a more laissez faire style of governance warned against. In fact, regarding leveling, Samuel Adams said, "The utopian schemes of leveling (re-distribution of the wealth) and a community of goods (socialism scheme of central ownership of production and distribution), are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional. Now what property can the colonists be conceived to have, if their money may be granted away by others, without their consent?" -- Samuel Adams, Boston Gazette, April 4, 1768.

The Utopians, Leftists, liberals, socialists, and all of the other crazies that fit into the same big government mold, spend a lot of time talking about the world after America. They dream of a world without America, not because they want the United States to vanish like the other great civilizations of history, but because they desire a borderless globe ruled over by a system of international governance, where nations are a thing of the past, individual governments have crumbled, and the world is united in a single global system.

The progressives don't realize that their vision of a world akin to John Lennon's "Imagine," or Marley's "One World, One Love," is not universal. In fact, their disdain for national and tribal identities runs contrary to much of the world's cultures. Of course, these leftists don't care about that, for their global imperialism is not dependent upon world acceptance in that way.

The plan is to build itself around a strong United States and Europe, while at the same time weakening them just enough to make them dependent upon a global system. The United Nations is the facilitator, but without Europe and the U.S., the power of the U.N. is impotent.

One of the ways to nudge the world toward a worldwide utopia is to convince the world to submit to a system governed by international law. The "international community" uses two enforcement mechanisms, trade sanctions and armed invasion, as we've seen with Iran and Libya. Without Europe and the U.S., however, the enforcement arm crumbles.

Also, without Europe and the United States, Islam, China, Russia, or any other host of tyrannies, would gain control and the global dream would be dead and fall under the control of a totalitarian system much worse than they dream theirs to be.

In other words, it is make or break. Either the world holds on to a New World Order with a New America that is strong, but different than it was founded, or we plunge into a dark age where Islam, China, and Russia divvy up the pieces and battle over the spoils.

Utopians see their progressive vision as inevitable, so they are unable to recognize consequences to their actions. They believe humanity is evolving, and that evolution is moving toward a more liberal model where humanity has cast off all mores, individual identities and religious beliefs, and are willing to jump into the big field of daisies riding their unicorns and singing the "Age of Aquarius"

Problem is, liberalism fails wherever and whenever it is tried. When borders are dissolved, stability dissolves as well. The global system of trade, and the stability of the various societies, depends on them being independent. The growth of the individual nation states is what holds it all together. Combine them all into a single global system of governance, and that system becomes about as effective as Washington DC. As the success of the United States is dependent upon the sovereignty of the individual states, so is the success of the globe dependent upon the sovereignty of the various nations.

Great civilizations do not exist because of the civilization, but because of the individual parts of that civilization. Control by a central source of governance does not enable the civilization to grow and prosper, but rather the individual decisions by the independent parts which create innovation, productivity, and prosperity. Economies are driven by the merchants, not the rulers. Rome prospered as States, and fell as an empire. Greece prospered as city-states, and fell as an empire.

When the government becomes the decision maker, the regulator, and the source of all economic functions, the civilization is doomed to fall.

The founders understood this, and the United States of America became the most prosperous nation in history because of the sovereignty of the States, the individuality of the States, and the autonomy of the States.

The world would be better off to take notice of the American system of a limited central government, and the sovereignty of the individual states.

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