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American exceptionalism vs. socialism

  

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Via:  make-america-great-again  •  5 years ago  •  2 comments

American exceptionalism vs. socialism
the response of Democratic lawmakers who attended the speech flew in the face of our political traditions, particularly that of a bloc of congresswomen wearing white from head to toe to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. The “women in white” leered with contempt at the president throughout his speech. They ignored his call for unity and bipartisanship. About half, including newly-elected loudmouth Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, refused to join the rest of the...

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Ask your neighbors and coworkers whether it’s a privilege to be an American and nearly all of them will answer with a resounding “yes.”  But the rising new leaders of today’s Democratic Party see American privilege as a mass delusion standing in the way of their political ambitions.  This was painfully evident last week during President Trump’s State of the Union address (SOTU).

SOTUs have traditionally been positive affairs.  American exceptionalism is so everlasting that most presidents can find something in the national condition worth boasting about, and even their political opponents find something in the boasts worth applauding.

Not so this year. Having presided over the strongest economic expansion in generations, President Trump’s speech had no shortage of achievements, and the response of ordinary Americans was electrifying.  According to a CBS News poll, 76 percent of Americans who saw the speech approved of it.

 

However, the response of Democratic lawmakers who attended the speech flew in the face of our political traditions, particularly that of a bloc of congresswomen wearing white from head to toe to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of women winning the right to vote.

The “women in white” leered with contempt at the president throughout his speech. They ignored his call for unity and bipartisanship.  About half, including newly-elected loudmouth Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, refused to join the rest of the chamber for a standing ovation when President Trump called upon the American people to “embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good.”

They sat stone-faced when the president touted the lowest-ever unemployment among minorities and the disabled.  They ignored his praise of new “right to try” legislation giving terminally ill patients access to experimental medicines.  Same thing with America becoming a net exporter of energy for the first time in 65 years.

212057_5_.png They remained somber even when President Trump announced his new Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, which promotes the economic empowerment of women in developing countries. 

Only when President Trump specifically hailed the achievements of American women -- filling 58 percent of new jobs last year and being elected to congress in record numbers -- did members of the group feel obliged to stand en masse , essentially to applaud themselves.

The refusal of Ocasio-Cortez and other “progressive” Democrats to celebrate, or even acknowledge, the success and good works of other Americans, irrespective of ideology or creed, on this time-honored occasion is shameful and unbecoming of servants in public office. 

But it’s politically astute.  Proponents of the socialist Green New Deal -- which now has the support of 70 Democrats in the House, 12 in the Senate, and six presidential candidates -- know it’s impossible to get Americans to accept a one-size-fits-all blueprint for centralized planning of their lives and livelihood so long as they think of themselves as privileged.

For all of their divisive rhetoric and mainstream media adoration, Ocasio-Cortez and her ilk aren’t likely to convince a majority of the U.S. public that the American dream is a lie, at least not in time for the 2020 election.  But they may convince enough people to enflame the social chaos and division we have been experiencing lately, and that might set a prelude one day for realization of their socialist fantasies.

President Trump is right that the state of our union is strong, at least economically and militarily, and a majority of Americans embrace his call to “step boldly and bravely into the next chapter” of this country’s glorious history.  We must not let the ideological radicalism and hunger for power of a few destroy this future.


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XXJefferson51
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1  seeder  XXJefferson51    5 years ago

....The socialists opposed Amazon’s plans in Queens based on claims that they were not adequately brought into the planning phases of the HQ. This is certainly not a valid excuse for denying New York City residents honest paying work in a city that boasts gargantuan costs of living and high poverty rates.

Imagine if one of GM or Ford’s plants had been protested and forced out of a city because of socialist ideology in the 1950s. It wouldn’t have been allowed to happen. Why would Americans sabotage their families and Main Street by preventing a formidable job creator to inject its dollars and influence in their hometowns?

A congresswoman’s influence has not only affected constituents in her district, but over eight million New Yorkers in one of the biggest cities in the world. What other businesses will be denied entry to New York City because of socialist inclinations? How many families have lost out on honest pay in order to stroke Ocasio-Cortez’s ego? How long before the socialists target the private affairs of entrepreneurs and small business owners?.....https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/the_socialists_declare_war.html

 
 
 
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2  seeder  XXJefferson51    5 years ago

Trump is as usual right.  The state of our union, the United States 🇺🇸 of America is strong 💪.  So is our economy and our military.  The progressive socialist of the Democrat Party is hsving a collective temper tantrum over the fact that America is so successful with Trump as our President instead of Clinton even though their leading economist predicted nothing but a severe recession that would not end while he is in office.  The American Dream is real, it’s alive, and we are not going to let a bunch of socialist democrats damage or destroy it.  

 
 

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