Abandonment Issues Abound

The Republicans disregarded the conservative principles of Goldwater and Reagan that first gained the American West then made the South a solid GOP stronghold and turned the Republicans into the dominant, majority national party. The US abdicated her sovereignty by leaving the Southern border unguarded and the Hispanic population surged and their culture flourished, meaning that African American and poor white labor was supplanted along with Anglo-Saxon custom and tradition and her Afro-Caribbean influence which were formerly considered essentially American. US industry, which after World War II was the workshop of the world, was first threatened by the rise of industrial Japan with her total quality management model as was propounded by an American, W. Edwards Deming, and her generous subsidies to Japanese companies to allow them to dump televisions and consumer electronics underselling and destroying American competitors, and then was ultimately replaced almost all together because of high labor and benefit cost and union work rule constraint with trade agreements such as NAFTA making it profitable to move American manufacturing outside the country. America induced capital flight with the second highest capital gains tax in the world. Even many call centers fled abroad often landing in India and causing no end of US consumer frustration. The Democratic party eschewed their commitment to robust national defense and the containment of Communism that were exemplified by Jack Kennedy and Scoop Jackson. Europe left Christendom to embrace an admixture of hedonism and the sincere worship by many of Islam and welcomed hordes of third world refugees to subvert the formerly dominant culture. Europe placed the burden and expense of her security on the US even necessitating American military action in the Balkans as states broke up and order disintegrated. NATO did not step up in Iraq at all or sufficiently in Afghanistan to make it a viable strategic alliance. The US is Michael and the NATO allies are the four other Jacksons. Russia ran from her brief flirtation with democracy under Yeltsin to return to strongman and Mussolini mimic Putin. The world dispensed with traditional morality with the great bacchanal of the 1960s. Mothers departed from raising their children as the viciously progressive income tax necessitated families produce two incomes, one to live on and one to pay the tax burden. Educators gave up teaching the classics and critical thinking in favor of I'm OK, You're OK non-competitive, values neutral instruction and copious leftist indoctrination. The ACLU and judicial elites first conspired to remove God from the classroom and then from the public square. The trial bar and legislators crafted law to remove personal responsibility and common sense. Bureaucrats and social engineers crafted sufficient regulation and the affirmative action quota system to drive out business and eradicate the entrepreneurial spirit which made America the land of opportunity and to create favored classes at the expense of the majority race and of white males in particular. Regulators failed to enforce financial rules and executives did not exercise fiduciary responsibility. President Bush threw in the towel on free market capitalism and basically nationalized large swaths of the American economy. Then the US and the world abandoned "never again" contentions and no Iran nukes leaving the Jewish state vulnerable. Finally America shunted aside logic and elected a Marxist neophyte as her President.