Posted by
grad_1986 on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 4:23:35 PM
Yesterday my wife and I watched a episode of Oprah (more my wife than I). In the show, she interviewed a NY Times writer by the name of ____ who has spent much of his time and energy on atrocities of Africa and their treatment of women and girls. I must say, it was an interesting show and much must be done to improve conditions in these countries. I began to question, however, WHY Africa has taken center stage in AMERICAN politics.
Back in the 1960's, Harlem was at the center stage of politics in our country. TV and Newspapers highlighted the conditions in the inner-cities (much of it created by our own government) and discussed drugs, prostitution, gangs, unemployment, poor medical care etc. But now we seemed to be having our attentions turned to other countries. Have we solved the "Harlems" of our own nation and so we have no need to address them anymore? Absolutely NOT! Today the left is promoting the idea of the "Global Village". We see commercial after commercial saying "Look at how small the world is". We in the U.S. are seen as the only ones who can fix these problems. We are the "rich kid on the block" and therefore we are the "solution" for all the ales the world around us. Forget about being the world's "policemen". We are now the world's police, fire and (if healthcare passes) medical providers.
Watch out America! Your sovereignty is slowly being sold. Obama himself has said he sees himself more as a citizen of the world than as an American and has already passed President Bush in the number foreign trips abroad. Politicians who push for amnesty for illegal immigrants say borders are artificial in nature and are meaningless in the 21st century (what right do you have to say where someone else can live or not live?) Congress is slowly selling our rights as a country as they increase our debts to other countries and thereby making us subservient to dictatorships like China. Our Supreme Court has hinted at aligning our constitution and laws with that of other countries to make us more like them. Political Correctness puts ethnicity before nation with all of its african-american, mexican-american, chinese-american to separate and divide us into little factions that can be manipulated and controlled. Under the disguise of "climate-change", some are proposing a world-wide "cap-and-trade" type of plan that would force the redistribution on a global scale.
Now I am not saying we should ignore places like Africa altogether. As individuals if we want to help change these countries for the betterment of their people then so be it. But that is not what many in Washington and on the left have in mind. They have great disdain for our way of life here in American. To them, it's unfair that we have clean water and plenty of food while other countries don't. They don't want to bring other countries UP, but instead want to bring us DOWN to their level. Tired of dealing with budgets in the billions, they want to control budgets in the trillions. Power always wants MORE power. It's a disease that left untreated will eventually destroy our country and our way of life.