Why the Republican message has failed [closed and annotated]
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[Kids, next time get somebody who grew up speaking English to proof-read. This was better than most, but the language really is difficult to master if you're not immersed in it from birth. - Moe Lane]
Why has Republicanism failed?
Republicanism has failed and will fail because of single of idea which America under President Bush has become fixated upon. The new idea and hegemony of Bush and America is the realization of freedom. It has been American’s claim to an absolute idea predicated on the absolute strength of such an idea in the world for other regimes to become and emulate. Is not” You are either with us or against us” a favorite slogan of this moment in history?
In no other time has an idea embodied and projected a world government such as now. Why does Republicanism fail? It fails because Republicans went along with Bush’s new hegemony-this new world government whatever the cost and did not limit its growth or power. How can the American public or the world take seriously the arguments for Republican smaller government when for the last eight years Republicans have worshipped with their President the largest hegemony in human history?
A hegemonic government is still a hegemonic even if dedicated to freedom and what does that say about America today? It says that those Conservatives to this day that warn us of impending take over of an out of control government taking over our lives deceive themselves and us that this has not already happened under President Bush. How are Republicans self-deceived? They are self-deceived in believing in the dual Republican message that an American world empire is ok while saying that an American empire-big government should be avoided at all costs because it may indeed get out of control. The image of such a dual message is not even grasped by most Republicans. If we are used to a larger empire nation as American citizens-what limitation can there be in its promise and growth? Rather than take government out of the way Bush and the Republicans have set us on a path to absolute nation state power that America has no boundaries in the years ahead… Is this freedom?
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So... you're saying that the spread of Democracy, in which the people in a country decide for themselves who should lead them, is nothing more than a hegemony of President Bush?
Funny, I seem to remember us fighting in support of Democracy, and against Communism, for many decades now.
In fact, I remember a specific struggle against the Communistic USSR, ended by the spread of Democracy.
Not to mention the decades of split in Germany, noted and made famous by the Berlin Wall, in which the Freedom of the West was put in close proximity to the Oppression of Communism. A wall was built to keep the Oppressed from finding freedom.
No, the spread of Freedom and Democracy, and the fight against Oppression and Terrorism are not hegemonic.
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