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by David C. Stolinsky • September
27, 2018 at 5:00 am
- Europe did not invent
racism and religious bigotry, but it surely perfected them.
- Europeans lived for
centuries under kings and emperors. They came to believe that
power flowed from the top down. The "elite" decide
what is best for the "common people" -- the
"masses" -- and then cram it down their throats.
- The "elite"
send their children to the best schools and universities, and
relegate the children of the "common people" to lousy
schools, where they get lousy educations, which prepare them for
lousy jobs, which pay lousy salaries, which leave them dependent
on the government for a lifetime of "assistance." But
they expect the "common people" to be grateful for the
"universal education" -- and for the
"assistance."
- The American idea of
individuals being responsible and taking responsibility is
utterly foreign to the "elite," who seem much more
comfortable with the European idea of infantilizing subjects to
make them dependent on a parentified government to protect them,
care for them, dole out money to them, and in general control
their lives. If people cannot even choose their own light bulbs,
toilets, or dishwasher detergent, in what sense are they free?
The Normandy
American Cemetery is the burial place of thousands of American
soldiers who fought and died to liberate Europe during World War II,
many of them on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st
Class Daniel Wallace)
If Europeanize were not a word, we would have to
invent it, because that is what many are doing to America. Remember
when candidate Obama was asked if he believed America is exceptional?
He answered yes, but only in the sense that Britain, Greece, and
other nations are exceptional.
As Gilbert and Sullivan said, "When everyone is
somebody, then no one is anybody."
If every nation is exceptional, none is.
It is not that Obama and his friends really think
America is unexceptional. They may well believe it is
exceptional, but that it should not be. So they do everything
they can to end its exceptional nature, and to make it resemble other
nations. They are Europeanizing America.
Do not get me wrong. I love Europe. That is, I love to
visit it:
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