PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

n her 239-year history, America has made three colossal mistakes. These do not, however, overwhelm the fact that the idea of America is wholly unique to mankind.

America was the first moral government based on individual rights and freedom. No other government in the history of mankind was based on such a concept. Man's value and his inalienable rights were paramount to the Founding Fathers. Extraordinary. Everything noble and magnificent that this great nation achieved was in accord with the principle of individual rights.
The idea of American exceptionalism – a concept that President Obama not only scorns but has absolutely no understanding of – is synonymous with the concept of individualism. What is American exceptionalism except individual exceptionalism?
Individualism regards every man as an independent being who possesses an unalienable right to live his own life, dream his own dream and be the master of his own destiny; no group, no mob, no special interest has rights other than the individual rights of all of its citizens.
The social system of a nation based on individualism is capitalism. The best description that comes to mind is from Atlas Shrugged: "I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." Indeed, this is what made America great.
But there have been these three principal mistakes:
1) Slavery
At the time of the American founding, slavery was common practice. Blacks were sold into slavery by other black tribes. Africans and Muslims sold slaves to European and American slave traders.
But slavery was an assault on the very idea of America. A country based on individual rights could hardly reconcile that with the idea of slavery. Capitalism is the only system incompatible with slavery. Our Founding Fathers knew this, and they fought long and hard with the slave states, but those states were having none of it. During the Constitutional Convention and all of the debates concerning the Constitution, the best men wanted to abolish slavery right away, and, clearly, they should have. The South, however, would not join the Union without slaves. Without the South, the fledging country would not win a war against the British. So they compromised.
In any deal between good and evil, evil profits. Ayn Rand said, "In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win." And so it did. Slavery led to the catastrophic Civil War. Approximately 650,000 Americans died so slaves would be free, to the great honor of this country (something the haters never mention). That horrible wrong was corrected at an unfathomable cost.
2) Jimmy Carter
Before Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter was easily the most disastrous president this country ever had. Many of the troubles we have today in the Middle East, and the rise of the global jihad, can be attributed to his policies.

Carter began the destabilization of the Middle East and the rollback of secularism there when he betrayed the shah, our great ally in a critical region, and enabled his overthrow at the hands of the bloodthirsty mullahs who established the Islamic Republic of Iran.
That betrayal bore immediate poison fruit with the 1979 hostage crisis, during which Carter dithered impotently and gave to the world an indelible image of American weakness. When the mullahs freed the hostages on Jan. 20, 1981, the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated president, they showed the world what they thought of both Carter and his successor.
Imagine if we had backed the shah. Hollywood has churned a number of movies and TV series (Amazon has one right now) imagining what the world would have looked like had the Nazis won. Current reality reflects the inversion of this. Imagine if we had backed the shah – what a wonderful turn for the world. Iran would not be the world's largest state sponsor of terror. There would be no Hezbollah (an Iranian proxy). The U.S. would have had a staunch ally in the Middle East – a powerful alliance.
Carter lasted only one term, but those terrible four years established that America was not a reliable ally, and would abandon those nations who had been our faithful friends (a precedent Barack Obama has followed many times). In unleashing the mullahs, Carter's presidency set another precedent as well: It established that America would underestimate, misunderstand and downplay the threat from jihadis and pro-Shariah Islamic supremacists – another precedent Obama has faithfully followed and expanded upon.
3) Barack Obama
Nothing has ever happened to the United States that is worse than the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. A committed Marxist collectivist, he has stood throughout his presidency against that very principle of individual rights that made America great. In abandoning our allies and aligning with the Muslim Brotherhood and other sinister groups, he has aligned with the most evil forces of the 21st century and overturned the order of the world. In abandoning and even actively turning against our allies (most notably Israel), he has made the United States of America, for so long the beacon of freedom in the world, into an untrustworthy ally, a nation that cannot be taken at its word.
We will be paying for Obama's presidency for decades to come. The full dimensions of the damage he has caused – the gutting of the economy, the new polarization of the races, the Iran nuclear deal and more – is likely only to be known once he is out of office. And America may never recover from this catastrophe.
If it does, however, it will be because it recovered respect for the principle of individual rights. As Reagan once said, "With all its flaws, American remains a unique achievement for human dignity on a scale unequaled anywhere in the world." That is still true. The shining city on the hill can shine again. But at this point, that will take a massive change in our political and media culture.
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Ricktloml

Every word is true. Thanks for the article

karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

Granted, Barack Obama Has Left The Next President A Tough Row To Hoe

As Long As We Don't Elect A Certain FAILED Sec'y Of State
Our Allies Will Readily Forgive America Obungler's Stupidity
They Will ALL Be As RELIEVED As America He's Finally Gone

Now As Far As The Kremlin Is Concerned,
I Couldn't Wager Anything

erniebanks14

Very good article but my three choices would be No. 1. Obozo; No. 2 Obozo; No. 3 Obozo

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

You forgot to add 4) Partisan politics: where individualism no longer applies, only obedience to partisan leadership. Where unity ONLY applies within a particular party, or subset of a party, and where, if it ain't YOUR party - you ain't playing nice, or indeed - playing at all. It's absolute power for MY party - or it's war.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Slavery was to err in the face of a new nation that looked to freedom as the main stay of the country..An accepted practice then, over time we corrected the record...


Carter was a blithering idiot and over time we were able to correct his error..He was simply too stupid......

That POS in office is another subject..Alienated our allies, has intended acts of demise to this Nation and it will take years if not centuries to bring back what he has ruined..Foreign allies, a thriving country, self worth in jobs and the American Dream may remain long since gone even after that treasonous bastard leaves office..!!!!!!!!

mark13 Loc: usa

Quite liked your 3 mistake article; however point 1 : slavery was not a mistake. The retention of slavery issue was not a mistake - it was purposeful. And the actual issue in which slavery, in America, was rooted has not been addressed to this day.
Apparently you know all the front loaded baggage about the issues of slavery and not being humans by definition within the laws and beliefs of the times; illustrated at, G W only freeing all but a few of his wife's slaves using his will... and through which he retained enough slaves to provide immediate assistance to/for his wife until her death; OR,
the DI shot by Jefferson to write in an end to slavery... all of which operated to stop the founders from dealing with ending slavery.
There was no issue involving person hood for the slaves : not being recognized as human unless the Black person was free [somewhere else]and doing business with a white guy; as late as Lincoln, the personhood : being human issue still controlled all matters of slavery.
As well, the entire world did not deal with the personhood - being a human being in their own womanly person.
Both of these personhood matters were the gift of Britain and arose out of Britons policy of years before declaring that the Irish were not human beings. It is also the reason that animal cruelty statutes came before and are still better than child protection regulations.
The issue of personhood is the crux of everything up to, in, and from Runnemede reaching into to today.
America has models : rules for everything and one of them is that you must declare your Sovereign Personhood = declare you have Natural right in your own person as the controlling gift of your Individual life from and in Nature and Natures God = inherent Natural Right free from all feudal obligation : debt of endowment : let of superior temporal authority.
Since the issue of personhood was not addressed or quasi settled until after the American Civil War, the original retention of slavery and personhood lessness for women was not a mistake = it was a given = it was personal because the European world did not recognize that Black slaves, women, and children could have the status of being human beings except through the familial Male – usually white male.
For Black people and Women the personhood in your own right matter has never been addressed in the manner required by Law to settle the question; therefore, such hapless creatures remain in the legalistic limbo of being unrecognized as humans in their own right : own person, thus reduced to : limited to sucking up to the state to beg for ‘civil rights’ and accepting whatever such crumbs of state statutory franchise falls to them from their current feudal Lord’s fingers.

Kevyn

Nixon, Reagan and George W. Bush are the biggest mistakes of modern times.

mark13 Loc: usa

truer words were never spoken by a collectivist dolt.