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Originally Posted by sugarpop
And how is that not just another form of oppression and totalitarianism? It is just another form of tyranny to run around the globe and occupy countries and force our views of government on them.
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Making liberty, in the face of anyone, regardless, who thinks people shouldn't have as much liberty as we do, is not an act of oppression. It is not an act of oppression to deny somebody the chance to do some oppressing himself.
People in whom "white liberal guilt" is absent can figure this out without being told. Only the mistakenly guiltridden, with their pro-fascist values, can mistake removing undemocracy and promoting genuine democracy for an oppression or tyranny.
White liberal guilt is a fascist-loving way to be, and it's horribly cowardly too. I do not love fascism/communism, and thus I have no guilt, nor any patience with those who do. You're in chains! Strike them off!
Our views of government are the human views of government. Most other modes are just aggrandized street-gang stuff -- exhibitions of what a highly motivated sociopath could achieve in the undemocratic Third World.
Why do you suppose it is our government that works, while so many others seem all about abusing somebody or are dysfunctional and failing? Are we Americans so uniquely suited to republican democracy that it cannot work anywhere else on the globe? I don't believe so, and for two examples I name Japan and Germany -- two very divergent cultural structures. Yet how are they now? Where's the idea this cannot be done again coming from? Again, it is from that bastion of American antidemocracy, the Left.