Yet another valuable and thought-provoking piece by Will that I agree with for the most part! Greatness indeed does come from competing in excellence. There is nothing wrong with peaceful nationalism and competition. I didn’t think there is anything wrong with thinking your country is the best as long as you don’t hate other countries. For example, I consider the United States the greatest country in the world, but I have nothing against Germany, India or Nigeria. Nationalism doesn’t necessarily mean going to war all the time. It can mean nations pushing each other to be the best they can be. You know what I want to see someday? I want to see a successful and prosperous United States competing with a successful and prosperous Great Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Israel, Japan, and Four Tigers all pushing each other to be as strong, wealthy and powerful as possible, make the best music, art and philosophy and the cultivate the best possible citizenry. I want to see the birth and development of a new American aristocracy who would compete with each other to build the most grandiose and beautiful architecture. Let us bring back Classical, Gothic, Renaissance, Rocco, and Art Nouveau style architecture! Let us also bring back Tudor, Georgian, Victorian, Chalet, Mediterranean, Half-Timbered, and Art Noveau style homes need to be brought back! Let us also get rid of all these unnecessary regulations, reform zoning laws and cut taxes on businesses. Let us reduce the size of government and cut down the overly bloated bureaucracies of western nations. In the United States, I call for the repeal of the PATRIOT Act, downsize the National Security State, bring the intelligence agencies under Congressional oversight, launch a second Church Commission, the elimination of unnecessary taxes, to balance the federal budget, to slash the defense budget by 50%, the elimination of corporate welfare, and to cut government spending overall.
We need to make the world’s cities great again! All the major cities on Earth need to compete with each other to see who can be the best! Leftist politicians will be voted out of power in America’s big cities. They should be replaced by Republicans and sane center-left Democrats. Costly infrastructure projects should be cancelled. More funding should be given to the police and more police should be put on the street. Laws against public drug use, urination and defecation will be strictly enforced. Treatment for drug addicts will be mandatory. Community centers will be opened to take care of and treat the mentally ill. The government will massively increase spending on infrastructure and public transportation. The inner cities will be cleaned up and jobs brought there by major corporations. More affordable housing will be built. London and Paris will elect new mayors and city councils. All migrant camps will be cleared out and the migrants deported. The two cities will be cleaned up, housing will be made more affordable. No-go zones will be stormed by the police and military and will be gentrified and integrated with non-Muslims. Paris will launch a city-wide initiative to create a Belle Epilogue 2.0. Mass deportations of illegal immigrants will be carried out in all major western cities. Lower density housing should be built to accommodate families and encourage folks having big families. A new Penn Station that looks like a modern and updated version of the old one will be built in New York City and replace Madison Square Garden which is an eyesore and will be immediately torn down. We must stop trying to unite humanity, which is an impossible task. No more international alliances, no more trying to create a one world government, no more globalism! Globalism is evil and terrible! It must be rolled back! The WEF needs to be investigated by Interpol! Klaus Schwab needs to be called before the European Parliament and rigorously questioned. The United Nations will be comprehensively reformed and purged of corruption and identity politics.
The Europeans will agree to pay 50% of the cost for NATO. The European Union will be reformed, the Euro eliminated, the EU will support free speech and become more pragmatic and transparent, and the EU will roll back its ridiculous regulations. The other NATO nations will stop being freeloaders will increase military spending and the size of its militaries. Transient culture in big cities in the West will be ended and corporations will start offering more sedentary positions. Cities will make more an effort to educate its people on its history. We need to start taking inspiration from the Athenians, Spartans and Ancient Greeks! Corporations will stop using minimalism in their buildings. There will be regulations on how many advertisements a company can display on buildings. The Olympic Games will be reformed. Trans people will be banned from competing in women’s sports. Politics and protests will be banned from the games. Identity politics will be purged from it. The states in this country must push each other to be the best they can be too. Texas will compete with Virginia, Missouri will compete with Iowa, California will compete with Oregon, New York will compete with New Jersey. The North will compete with the South and the West will compete with the Midwest.
I almost forgot! As always, here are some book recommendations for Will and The American Tribune's subscribers:
* New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America by Burton W. Folsom Jr.
* FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America by Burton W. Folsom Jr. & Anita Folsom
* The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America by Burton W. Folsom Jr.
* Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography by Craig L. Symonds
* General A.P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior by James I. Robertson Jr.
* Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War by Craig L. Symonds
* The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston by William Preston Johnston
* George Mason, Forgotten Founder by Jeff Broadwater
* James Madison: A Biography by Ralph Ketcham
* Rhodesia: Worthy of the Name by H.P. Hornblower
* Kill the Boer: Government Complicity in South Africa's Brutal Farm Murders by Ernst Roets
* Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington
* Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism by Ibn Warraq
* Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam by Raymond Ibrahim
* The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft
Interesting and useful piece - other than a complete misreading of the American right wrt the EU. The EU is a non-representative Supra-national collective run by women. No one I know does, and no one should, respect it.
What’s wrong with a Right Wing version of a Federal Europe with Subsidiarity to maintain the various nations’ cultures, but all are united under one foreign policy like the United States. We have fifty states with their own unique culture, yet we don’t have 50 separate foreign policies. Europe may have thrived in the past as separate competing entities, but there’s no guarantee that’s returning anytime soon.
Canada is only an eighth of the population of the US
We need a National Divorce to give our society a sense of purpose - to prove that red states can create the greatest society ever known to man when freed from the shackles of DC judges & blue-state politicians
Yet another valuable and thought-provoking piece by Will that I agree with for the most part! Greatness indeed does come from competing in excellence. There is nothing wrong with peaceful nationalism and competition. I didn’t think there is anything wrong with thinking your country is the best as long as you don’t hate other countries. For example, I consider the United States the greatest country in the world, but I have nothing against Germany, India or Nigeria. Nationalism doesn’t necessarily mean going to war all the time. It can mean nations pushing each other to be the best they can be. You know what I want to see someday? I want to see a successful and prosperous United States competing with a successful and prosperous Great Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Israel, Japan, and Four Tigers all pushing each other to be as strong, wealthy and powerful as possible, make the best music, art and philosophy and the cultivate the best possible citizenry. I want to see the birth and development of a new American aristocracy who would compete with each other to build the most grandiose and beautiful architecture. Let us bring back Classical, Gothic, Renaissance, Rocco, and Art Nouveau style architecture! Let us also bring back Tudor, Georgian, Victorian, Chalet, Mediterranean, Half-Timbered, and Art Noveau style homes need to be brought back! Let us also get rid of all these unnecessary regulations, reform zoning laws and cut taxes on businesses. Let us reduce the size of government and cut down the overly bloated bureaucracies of western nations. In the United States, I call for the repeal of the PATRIOT Act, downsize the National Security State, bring the intelligence agencies under Congressional oversight, launch a second Church Commission, the elimination of unnecessary taxes, to balance the federal budget, to slash the defense budget by 50%, the elimination of corporate welfare, and to cut government spending overall.
We need to make the world’s cities great again! All the major cities on Earth need to compete with each other to see who can be the best! Leftist politicians will be voted out of power in America’s big cities. They should be replaced by Republicans and sane center-left Democrats. Costly infrastructure projects should be cancelled. More funding should be given to the police and more police should be put on the street. Laws against public drug use, urination and defecation will be strictly enforced. Treatment for drug addicts will be mandatory. Community centers will be opened to take care of and treat the mentally ill. The government will massively increase spending on infrastructure and public transportation. The inner cities will be cleaned up and jobs brought there by major corporations. More affordable housing will be built. London and Paris will elect new mayors and city councils. All migrant camps will be cleared out and the migrants deported. The two cities will be cleaned up, housing will be made more affordable. No-go zones will be stormed by the police and military and will be gentrified and integrated with non-Muslims. Paris will launch a city-wide initiative to create a Belle Epilogue 2.0. Mass deportations of illegal immigrants will be carried out in all major western cities. Lower density housing should be built to accommodate families and encourage folks having big families. A new Penn Station that looks like a modern and updated version of the old one will be built in New York City and replace Madison Square Garden which is an eyesore and will be immediately torn down. We must stop trying to unite humanity, which is an impossible task. No more international alliances, no more trying to create a one world government, no more globalism! Globalism is evil and terrible! It must be rolled back! The WEF needs to be investigated by Interpol! Klaus Schwab needs to be called before the European Parliament and rigorously questioned. The United Nations will be comprehensively reformed and purged of corruption and identity politics.
The Europeans will agree to pay 50% of the cost for NATO. The European Union will be reformed, the Euro eliminated, the EU will support free speech and become more pragmatic and transparent, and the EU will roll back its ridiculous regulations. The other NATO nations will stop being freeloaders will increase military spending and the size of its militaries. Transient culture in big cities in the West will be ended and corporations will start offering more sedentary positions. Cities will make more an effort to educate its people on its history. We need to start taking inspiration from the Athenians, Spartans and Ancient Greeks! Corporations will stop using minimalism in their buildings. There will be regulations on how many advertisements a company can display on buildings. The Olympic Games will be reformed. Trans people will be banned from competing in women’s sports. Politics and protests will be banned from the games. Identity politics will be purged from it. The states in this country must push each other to be the best they can be too. Texas will compete with Virginia, Missouri will compete with Iowa, California will compete with Oregon, New York will compete with New Jersey. The North will compete with the South and the West will compete with the Midwest.
Thanks!
I almost forgot! As always, here are some book recommendations for Will and The American Tribune's subscribers:
* New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America by Burton W. Folsom Jr.
* FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America by Burton W. Folsom Jr. & Anita Folsom
* The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America by Burton W. Folsom Jr.
* Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography by Craig L. Symonds
* General A.P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior by James I. Robertson Jr.
* Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War by Craig L. Symonds
* The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston by William Preston Johnston
* George Mason, Forgotten Founder by Jeff Broadwater
* James Madison: A Biography by Ralph Ketcham
* Rhodesia: Worthy of the Name by H.P. Hornblower
* Kill the Boer: Government Complicity in South Africa's Brutal Farm Murders by Ernst Roets
* Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington
* Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism by Ibn Warraq
* Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam by Raymond Ibrahim
* The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft
Interesting and useful piece - other than a complete misreading of the American right wrt the EU. The EU is a non-representative Supra-national collective run by women. No one I know does, and no one should, respect it.
Many hope for a right wing version of it, or at least a less gay version of it. I think that’s a mistake
What’s wrong with a Right Wing version of a Federal Europe with Subsidiarity to maintain the various nations’ cultures, but all are united under one foreign policy like the United States. We have fifty states with their own unique culture, yet we don’t have 50 separate foreign policies. Europe may have thrived in the past as separate competing entities, but there’s no guarantee that’s returning anytime soon.
Canada is only an eighth of the population of the US
We need a National Divorce to give our society a sense of purpose - to prove that red states can create the greatest society ever known to man when freed from the shackles of DC judges & blue-state politicians