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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: skinowski who wrote (520416)11/7/2012 8:05:14 PM
From: neolib3 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 793597
 
Why should we be happy about moving towards the place from which China is struggling to escape? Why should that be a positive thing? Why shouldn't we stick to principles that made our nation successful? Why the need to abandon them?

Excellent questions. I don't want us to become more like China. In fact, what I'm afraid of is that Americans, including many currently Republicans ones, will at some point in the future try to make us more like China, BECAUSE it will finally have dawned on them that many of our principles don't in fact make us the most economically (and hence militarily) successful nation on the planet.

That is what I fear: reality clobbering ideology in America. I'll take freedom over being a member of the richest and most powerful country on earth. The problem is that most American's don't have the faintest clue that the these things might not necessarily go together. We have been very blessed to live in a country which has excellent freedoms and also has been the richest and most powerful one. It will come as a very rude surprise to many when they finally understand that freedom doesn't ensure we will always stay the richest and most powerful. For many conservative American's I suspect that preeminence in military power is more important than individual freedoms. I might be wrong about that, I hope I am.
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