Therefore, socialists hate the US for its free-market, capitalist system which historically afforded upward mobility for anyone with an idea, some muscle and some willingness to risk their capital.

The Left’s attack on Judeo-Christian values and religious expression has the practical effect of muffling the collective conscience of the free market – hence, Bernie Madoff and the Apostles of Greed. The reason Capitalism could work so effectively is that Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand and the ‘enlightened self-interest’ described by the Framers of our beloved Constitution were regulated not by government but by humanitarian concern. That concern, wholly apart from the godless arm of coercive government has long been animated by our religious convictions, pluralist culture (not multiculturalism), and regard for the poor for the sake of conscience, not statute.

Big Government has claimed to be the patroness of the poor while in reality it’s statist, antireligious, antifamily interloping has marginalized the influence of faith in the US.

Still, our tradition of God-inspired humanitarianism still manifests in our aid to disaster victims, investment in nation building, interventions against tyrants, humanitarian relief organizational activity, missionary work, medical relief, and economic development of impoverished nations.

It was Alexis de Toqueville who wrote, “America is great because America is good.” Should we cease to be good, we shall also cease to be great. That decline is mainfestly underway with the moral decline evidenced by divorce rates, out of wedlock births, massacre of innocents through abortion, inner city crime, disintegration of our southern border, addiction to debt, and infatuation with the new paganism: evolutionism, environmentalism and materialism.

Only a fool would claim that conservatives were faultless in this decline; indeed, their silence is tantamount to complicity. But economic collapse is a consequence of moral failure, not it’s cause.

American Exceptionalism is no myth. That a sitting president would so recklessly disparage his predecessor on the world stage in a race to denounce said American Exceptionalism is shocking. It is a denunciation of American leadership and patronage. Joshua is right – being liked is an emotional stimulation, not a foreign policy. The Politics of personal charisma do not translate into effective foreign policy in a big, bad, dangerous world. Perhaps being feared rather than liked isn’t such a bad thing after all.

Therefore, socialists hate the US for its free-market, capitalist system which historically afforded upward mobility for anyone with an idea, some muscle and some willingness to risk their capital.

The Left’s attack on Judeo-Christian values and religious expression has the practical effect of muffling the collective conscience of the free market – hence, Bernie Madoff and the Apostles of Greed. The reason Capitalism could work so effectively is that Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand and the ‘enlightened self-interest’ described the Framers of our beloved Constitution were regulated not by government but my humanitarian concern. That concern, wholly apart from the godless arm of coercive government has long been animated by our religious convictions, pluralist culture (not multiculturalism), and regard for the poor for the sake of conscience, not statute.

Big Government has claimed to be the patroness of the poor while in reality it’s statist, antireligious, antifamily interloping has marginalized the influence of faith in the US.

Still, our tradition of God-inspired humanitarianism still manifests in our aid to disaster victims, investment in nation building, interventions against tyrants, humanitarian relief organizational activity, missionary work, medical relief, and economic development of impoverished nations.

It was Alexis de Toqueville who wrote, “America is great because America is good.” Should we cease to be good, we shall also cease to be great. That decline is mainfestly underway with the moral decline evidenced by divorce rates, out of wedlock births, massacre of innocents through abortion, inner city crime, disintegration of our southern border, addiction to debt, and infatuation with the new paganism: evolutionism, environmentalism and materialism.

Only a fool would claim that conservatives were faultless in this decline; indeed, their silence is tantamount to complicity. But economic collapse is a consequence of moral failure, not it’s cause.

American Exceptionalism is no myth. That a sitting president would so recklessly disparage his predecessor on the world stage in a race to denounce said American Exceptionalism is shocking. It is a denunciation of American leadership and patronage. Joshua is right – being liked is an emotional stimulation, not a foreign policy. The Politics of personal charisma do not translate into effective foreign policy in a big, bad, dangerous world. Perhaps being feared rather than liked isn’t such a bad thing after all.

A non-American myself, I’m deeply pro-American.

This transparent lie may be a perfect illustration of why we should ignore the counsel of false friends who do not mean us well. This is why I say that being loved is overrated. I should have said that it’s an illusion. Where are you from Hugh? Tell us.

There is more to serving a POTUS than our policy toward the rotting sewer that is Juche North Korea.