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Subject: RE: BS: Understanding 'Conservatives'
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Sep 12 - 08:18 PM
IRONY part 3:
The US of A had a LOT of settlers from Merrie Olde England come to our shores, so we had several hundred years of History to draw on as how that "... bossing the world and his wife about and throwing hissy fits if challenged on it." is done and justified.
We are sure that, in several hundred years, we colonies will have 'adjusted' our attitudes properly to be semi-sane and decent folk...that is, if the 'Conservatives' haven't attained permanent control.
"Conservative" seems to be a slippery concept these days, having become nearly a sneaky euphemism for 'reactionary'."


On one hand, I think it is entirely fair nd right to call out Europeans on their 'old empire' days, when the now 'new world' and other vast regions of the earth lived under the thrall of Imperial control and of course exploitation.

And yet on the other hand, no old European empire did as much potential harm to the entire world as the current American empire is currently engaged in doing. While the USA and it's imperial ambitions may be young on an historical world scale, destructive technologies are not - particularly nuclear weapons which the USA possess in spades. The sheer power of weaponry today, combined with the USA's aggressive imperial foreign policies, is why the USA is THE most dangerous threat to international peace and stability in the world today, and the future - if we have one.