Reply #62: Manifest Destiny Writ Large? [View All]

[LoneStarLiberal]

I would argue that it isn't odd at all. And that Kucinich's policies are radical to most Americans.

And I would argue they are radical for exactly the same reasons.

There was an arguement made a couple of months back on the GD boards about whether or not Americans were just being mislead or whether or not a majority of people in this country think about the rest of the world with the same chop-licking aggression in which we thought about our country in "Manifest Destiny" times.

If that theory is correct, which I believe for most Republican-voting conservatives it is, then it wouldn't be odd at all to see a large minority of Americans O.K. with screwing other people out of their natural resources through institutions like the WTO and NAFTA, making war in the name of secure oil, and resisting any international compliance that lowers us to the level of our inferiors.

Maybe people really do believe that crap. If so, there's your answer.