That sounds like the political equivalent of the materialists' One Free Miracle. Allow us to wipe the locals off the map and put remainder into a reservation, steal their land and use abducted and enslaved Africans to work it, and we'll provide a utopia.
It had a tiny population for its land mass, an almost inexhaustible source of minerals and an isolationist political policy. Based on the free economic miracle of genocidal colonisation. No political magic bullet there.
Europe was the model for US policy. Land grab the parts of the world with cheap labour and armed with nothing heavier than a pointed stick, kill the ones who complain and set up a parliament ensuring civilised laws for the victors. Actually the parts of Europe who got in early on the colonisation business lived in a fairly benign state, albeit one governed by draconian penalties for transgressors. Political extremism in the shape of Fascism was driven by countries who felt themselves hemmed in by more expansive powers, and Communism offered to put bread on the table in a country where starvation was the norm.
I don't see any comparison between the paper shufflers of Brussels and the Soviet Union. States can leave Europe any time they like by the simple expedient of saying no thanks, there'll be no EU tanks rolling into Croydon and Leeds after a No vote. Unlike the USSR, countries are queueing up to enter Europe.
None of the points you've made are based on economic pragmatism, they are all appeals to emotion. I find it as hard to take your idea of the american frontier as the best of all possible worlds as I do the Spanish and Portugese in South America or the British in India and China. Alright for some, as we say round here.
PS George Bernard Shaw built a reputation outraging those without his playful sense of irony.
1) Genocide and slavery are not at all unique to Western culture. On the contrary, you can read about muslim invasión of India, or Genghis Khan, or Tamerlan, etc, or Arabic slave trade, or, for that matter, other cultures that practiced slavery. All of them, to be precise. Genocide and slavery are as old as the humanity itself, to blame the West for them is plain unfair. All nations and ethnicities practiced slavery and genocide. None of the created a free and prosperous society, except the United States.
2) Communism didn't put any bread anywhere, on the contrary, it perpetrated the worst artificial famines in history.
3) "American frontier"? I daid nothing abouth the frontier, I talked about the technological progress. Ford, Edison, Marconi, and other geniuses had nothing to do with the frontier.
4) No, it's not appeal to any emotion, I lived in the USSR, and I, as well as Vladimir Bukovsky (whose video I posted above), well respected politologist and writer, who also lived there, find a lot of chilling similarities between the USSR and the EU; I posted throughout this thread enough material to demonstrate that.
5) to attribute Shaw's call to genocide to his "sense of irony" is so preposterous, it doesn't need any rebuttal. The video speaks for itself.
PD. It'd amazing to me that, every time I post this repugnant, nauseating, atrocious video of Shaw, my friends on the left always try to justify it. It doesn't seem to shock them at all. If anybody on my side of the political spectrum had done this, I would disavow him forever and ever.
