Ancaps, libertardians, Ron Paul groupies, 'Founding Fathers' fetishists, 'classical liberals', 'limited government' conservatives, 'constitutionalists', any kind of capitalists. You can't win if you embrace the approved parameters of the enemy.
Individual liberty had less to do with America's success than having lots of workable land and being situated between two major oceans. I think even a basically liberal person like Robert Kaplan would agree:
Contrast this with Germany - which was in a horrible geographical position, and instead of injuns like we had had to deal with Russians. Hitler thought Russians were like Indians. But they were a very different opponent.
There are a lot of reasons why peoples succeed or fail. America succeeded and Germany failed mostly because of geographical factors and who their opponents were. Ideology in that sense is a sideshow.
Now? American ideology is a cancer. Late capitalism just justifies US corporate domination, an unsustainable lifestyle that makes it possible, and the export of this ideology and its consequences globally, often by force at the point of a gun.
Joe_McCarthy 0 points 6 days ago
Individual liberty had less to do with America's success than having lots of workable land and being situated between two major oceans. I think even a basically liberal person like Robert Kaplan would agree:
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Revenge_of_Geography.html?id=ASmPEAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description
Contrast this with Germany - which was in a horrible geographical position, and instead of injuns like we had had to deal with Russians. Hitler thought Russians were like Indians. But they were a very different opponent.
There are a lot of reasons why peoples succeed or fail. America succeeded and Germany failed mostly because of geographical factors and who their opponents were. Ideology in that sense is a sideshow.
Now? American ideology is a cancer. Late capitalism just justifies US corporate domination, an unsustainable lifestyle that makes it possible, and the export of this ideology and its consequences globally, often by force at the point of a gun.