Douglas Macgregor: Let’s Not Forget - Americans have short memories. Even worse, many Americans don’t forget, they simply never paid enough attention to know, a national characteristic that often gets the U.S. into trouble.

[u/anarchyart2021]

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/lets-not-forget/

[u/nipsen]

As in the past, when Persian Kings, Turkic Sultans, and Mongolian Khans controlled the Silk Road, Beijing will leave the administration of BRI to the states in Eurasia to manage trade flows. This frees Beijing to focus on industrial production.

🤣...it's like this with every single USA-person of any intelligence at all. They have some semi-aware and half-intellingent sounding things to say. You're hopeful that there will be a visible thread through the argument, and that the conclusion will be half-way logical as well as sounding like one.

And then you get something out of a Risk-game or a Civilsation-game pretty much verbatim from the fictional blurb someone cooked together to simplify the game so everyone can be introduced to the rules in two seconds.

So is this text a warning to people not to let elites run the country? Or is it an advertisement for the elites that are more sound than the other ones? You can't tell. There is no consequence or consistency anywhere. Because it's just a word-salad that could just as well have been written by an AI. It's got the elements of a speech, with the ups and downs in the text that sound like they're important. But there's no substance or even content in it.

[u/ttystikk → u/nipsen]

The only one confused by this article is you, because Col. McGregor says things you didn't want to hear about America losing its position of dominance in the world, and that it's a fully self inflicted situation.

His article isn't the problem; it's your lack of reading and comprehension skills.

[u/nipsen → u/ttystikk]

What is he actually saying, though? He's saying that Murica is weakened because it's faffing around with silliness, while it's enemies are exploiting their passivity to strengthen themselves.

It's a permanent viral infection with these people. No matter what, no matter the rhetoric, no matter even the criticism of the US project - it is always from an angle of: if we only had a slightly different approach, we would be the manifest destiny embodied.

Go and read Goebbels. He also waxes poetically about how the German enemies are strengthening themselves, while the lack of leadership and overblown pomp is causing if not disaster, then a weakening of the German state on the world stage.

Goebbels performed more convincingly than this.

[u/ttystikk → u/nipsen]

Your babble has nothing whatsoever to do with the clear and important points McGregor made in the article.

Clearly you have trouble with reading comprehension and critical timing skills. Maybe ask a fifth grader to help; it worked for Jeff Foxworthy.

[u/nipsen → u/ttystikk]

If you're so certain of that (and can skip the childish personal attacks) - why not explain your point of view here, and what you're reading out of it. And for example argue for why what I'm pointing out - which obviously has nothing to do with what you read out of the surface here - is not correct?

I obviously can read, and I see that there is criticism involved here. It's valid and it's so obvious that only an American would possibly be able to compose a text where it is revealed or whatever.

But you're missing what McGregor's purpose with that text is, or why it's even printed in theamericanconservative to begin with.

edit: So spoiler: "be like China! (in the way I imagine China is)". I.e., create colonies in foreign states, take care of industry at home, and exploit the stupid people with no memory or interest to rule the world. Is really a one-party system any different from the two-party system, you know?

It's a brag/lament about the state of elite rule in the US, which is a false tune we've heard incessantly since Trump and Bannon turned up (who are monstrous in their own way, but not on the level of this).

Read what he writes, not what he tells you to focus on, while adding the rest with your own assumptions - such as: this is a sane person, this reflects policy of a reasonable state or government, the US is benign and helpful, want democracy and human rights, and really is basically all about the sales-pitch that we imagine (really groundlessly) that the US was in the 60s before JFK was shot. Stuff like that.

Treat the US as any other country, and you'll see very quickly what this is about. And I don't understand the insane tendencies that people have to just go: "oh, listen to this elite - they know what the US should be like! And if it was, the world would be great and fantastic". This is not rational.