Dear Fred,
Thanks for the National Review article.
It is engagingly written but as specious as Smirk's rationale for invading Iraq.
The United States is already more socio-economically stratified than Europe. Furthermore class stratification is most deeply engraved in England's character, not on the continent.
Indeed, the continent is more upwardly mobile than we - and sigificantly so.
See:
"The Loss of Upward Mobility in The United States." http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-loss-of-upward-mobility-in-us.html
"Want to chase the American dream? Move to Canada." http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/want-to-chase-american-dream-move-to.html
It is true that California (and other liberal, university-trained communities) have created vibrant milieu's for venture capitalism.
But illiberal American industry (which is most of it) is stuck in unimaginative models of commercial-industrial exploitation like Sam Walton's, which care little for The Common Good while devising clever ways for the piggish 5% to chow down on ever-enlarging pieces of the pie. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/viral-video-shows-huge-gap-between.html
Concerning America's "unique" willingness to elect a black president, it is part of our historical splendor -- and our shame -- that, in more generous days, we opened doors to dark-skinned immigrants, also importing millions more as slaves.
Left to their own devices, "white America" would be no kinder to "blacks and browns" than contemporary conservatives are to Hispanics and urban blacks whom they would just as soon see dead or sent packing.
In sum, it is mostly an odd convergence of historic peculiarities that has made America sufficiently dark-skinned to elect a black president despite tooth and nail resistance by the embittered detritus of our all white ruling class. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/if-obama-were-white.html
Increasingly, “America's Big, Fat Advantage” is just big... and fat.
Pax on both houses,
Alan
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:
national review -- a good one, refutable, but well saidOn Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Alan Archibald <alanarchibaldo@gmail.com> wrote:--The red shoes were very cool.Not only Italian, but crimson!On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:"The carnival is over." -- But the red shoes were kind of cool.On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Alan Archibald <alanarchibaldo@gmail.com> wrote:Caro Giovanni,Gotta love the paisan! http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/pope- francis-to-celebrate-last- supper.html When Francis was getting ready to deliver his Urbe et Orbi address, an aide held out the ermine papal cape.Francis refused it.According to reports, he said: "The carnival is over."It's a whole new ball game.PaceAlan
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