We’ve all heard the accusation by liberals that
Americans, particularly lower and middle-class, are parochial. We’re just not sophisticated enough to
understand the ways of the world. So we’ve
been told.
I, on the other hand, wonder what kind of country
liberals are trying to turn us into.
They obviously have no respect for our founding, history or
institutions. They’ve been busy
fundamentally transforming the most powerful and benevolent nation ever to
exist into something that is un-American; a hybrid of socialist Europeanism and
Latin American strife.
Look at
France. They have a stagnant economy, a
corrupt bureaucracy, an incestuous political class that feeds off class envy
and paternalism, an immigration problem that threatens their national identity
and security, and an entitlement mentality that strangles innovation and hard
work.
Democrats theatrically lament our shrinking middle-class. Yet, it is their French-esque policies that
are the cause. Here is an excerpt from an
article describing the French economy published by the Telegraph:
From 40 per cent of the population
then, blue-collar workers have dwindled to half of that and are looking in
petrified anguish at the possibility of yet more jobs being outsourced abroad.
Apart from the employees of former state monopolies such as SNCF, the railway
network, or EDF, the electricity giant, who remain under the iron protection of
specific statutes ensuring job security, French workers are aware that if they
lose their jobs, they won't find anything half as good again.
The vast
majority of the French not directly employed by the state (about one quarter of
the workforce) live in a state of pervasive fear of unemployment that is
probably impossible to overstate.
One
quarter of the under-25s are unemployed; while employers also actively
discriminate against over-50s. France is depressed and gloomy. More and more,
my native country reminds me of the Britain I knew from my days at school
during the Winter of Discontent, those grey and pessimistic times when the joke
was that the last person leaving England should remember to turn out the
lights. We don't have power cuts yet, but we have more and more power outages.
The French, especially in the public sector, go on strike on the flimsiest of
pretexts.
Moreover, the
country is riven by class envy and doubts most of its public figures. The
recent revelation that the leader of the largest union, the Communist-linked
CGT, has a flat renovated for his use at the union's expense, complete with
home cinema and a terrace offering views of the Bois de Vincennes park in
Paris, adds to the general feeling that none of the hitherto trusted figures
holding power is deserving of their position.
That kind of sounds familiar doesn’t it? Is this the vision Democrats have for
us? Vice President Joe Biden himself
stated what D.C. thinks about the middle-class:
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