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Can Americans accept the challenge of democracy?; Thomas Loxley; Beaver County Times; March 17, 2017.
Previous Thomas Loxley (TL) letters I reviewed were “Will GOP overreach destroy the party,” “Election interference demands a runoff” and “Cracker plant will turn Beaver into Stinkville.”
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“Since the ancient Chinese general wrote ‘The Art of War,’ it has steadily evolved as leaders schemed to enhance and insure their authority. The best saw value in figuring how to do it without firing a shot.”
[RWC] You’ll find much of this is regurgitated in TL’s March 31st letter.
“War now entails an array of conventional, political, psychological, economic and cyber tactics in what Vladimir Putin calls ‘hybrid’ warfare. Most Americans don’t know that war is in full operation right now, and effectively pitting us against each other for Vladimir’s delight. It seeks to use all of our natural weaknesses, hypocrisies and momentum against us.
“This deadly divisiveness is now everywhere in our authoritarian age of Trump. Vladimir’s strategy focuses upon the political demise of all meaningful democracy.”
[RWC] Is TL asserting “deadly divisiveness” didn’t exist before President Trump?
“Authoritarian” appears to be a “go to” word for lefties referring to President Trump (DT). Somehow it didn’t make the cut when BHO was cranking out his executive orders and deciding which laws his regime would enforce.
U.S. lefties have loved the Russkies since long before I was born. Heck, U.S. lefties were “anti-war” before WWII until Hitler broke his non-aggression deal with Stalin and attacked the USSR. Today’s lefties routinely claim “Russia won the war in WWII.” Why are lefties now throwing their buddy under the bus? What happened?
“Indeed, democracy is a frail experiment rooted in the U.S. Constitution and British Magna Carta, both drafted by those who knew well the dark powers of authoritarianism, and the awesome challenge of building any true democracy. Religious history documents the eagerness of those in power to impose their selfish beliefs on others as God’s Law. So, too, have our racial, social, economic and political histories documented the eagerness of groups to egotistically dominate their neighbors.”
[RWC] As a reminder, the U.S. is a republic, not a “true democracy.”
“Democracy is a messy business that forces everyone to give others all reasonable room to do their own thing. The goal is to allow the best ideas to flourish by the power of their own good example, in a true exercise of free enterprise.”
[RWC] It’s too bad the policies pushed by TL’s political party oppose “a true exercise of free enterprise.”
“Many question America’s capacity to now shoulder those citizenship responsibilities posed by any real democracy.”
[RWC] Blah, blah, blah.
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