Maybe Someone Just Needs to Say It.
I suppose it's worth a try.
People think I am a populist. While it is true that I want to keep America’s interests first, how well can the people of America do in a world at war? Does anyone else out there realize, what all-out war actually means?
When the new millennium began, I held a vain hope that the world would be changed for the better. What a time to evolve as a species that might have been! Instead, we are closer to the brink of self-destruction worldwide, than we have ever been.
Here is a snippet about Donald Trump that I think bears mention. Nuclear annihilation has been a possibility for longer than most people alive, have lived. But “annihilation” would be just that, and it is unthinkable. It has to be avoided, at any cost. Policy for domestic and business life does not address that. So the question is, what can America do, as a nation, to promote civility and peace in the world?
I submit to you the obvious, that until the last, perhaps, three decades of so-called “progressive” efforts to make one world of many differing cultures, America was able to serve as an example of peace through strength, of economic leadership, as an example of what can be achieved through prosperity.
This is what we mean by “Make America Great Again.”
Civility and peace. That’s what everyone wants, really, worldwide. It’s what I want. I don’t want Russia to be our enemy. I do not want China to be our enemy. I don’t want North Korea, or Iran, or anyone else to be our enemy. America needs partnerships for a better world.
Partnerships.
Science and technology can allow us to make things better for everyone in an era of true civility and peace, a Renaissance of historic proportions that can be ours. Right now, it looks like anything but that.
Nations should celebrate their own cultures, because it is not one world. If and when the day arrives that it can be, then everyone will want it. It cannot be forced upon the world.
It never could be. It is not America’s place, nor the place of any individual nation, to attempt it.
Nor is it the place of any group.
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I agree with pretty much everything here as you describe it, although I'm definitely less techno-optimistic. I would note, too, that Russia and China act in bad faith consistently and egregiously. The US's foreign policy is far from squeaky clean, but it at least moments of detente and goodwill that I don't see from the countries listed as adversaries. I've got a hot take that the most telling (no pun intended) moment in American foreign policy history is the passing of the Teller Amendment and its effect on public support for the Spanish-American War.