Empire America (Page 1)
At last the issues that really matter to the United States in international affairs are being put forth with clarity. Conservatives and liberals alike in our Anglo-centric world agree that something like a thousand-year world dominion has finally begun for ours, the only authentic brand of democracy.
Perhaps our world dominion will have no millennial limitations at all.
It is
likely to be eternal.
A different concept of a thousand-year Reich was launched in Germany in the middle 1930’s. Since it was limited to a thousand years, it lasted scarcely ten. Had those early masters of the human race envisioned it as eternal, their dominion might have endured longer. But, then again, theirs was not a democracy.
Anyway, who’s counting?
Contemporary democracy is a patented concept. It is undeniably ours. We Americans invented it, and it cannot be improved upon. Our founding fathers exhibited great wisdom in keeping that concept very flexible in order to survive whatever negative criticisms foreign detractors might try to level in the future at our enduring principles of representative government.
One example of such negative foreign criticism should suffice. (Pseudo-historians can lose their audience with boringly obscure footnotes and irrelevant references.) Our democracy has been hard to understand for some critics in the past because it was enjoyed and practiced for decades by free men on the backs of slaves.