The decline of WASP ideals and myths of the frontiersman, cowboy, etc, and by extension American identity, coincided with the rise of Third Worldism. Nature abhors a vacuum.
"People are constantly looking over their shoulders at their black or their Catholic and Jewish friends to ask how they’re doing."
Parallel with soylennial desire for social approval from blacks, etc.
Restatement of WASP ideals:
"Our mission was the mission of the West . . . We were the last children of the Renaissance."
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The Neoconservative "movement" was really just two dozen tight-knit guys. Nearly the entire foreign policy establishment was opposed to invading Iraq but was overruled by this small coterie because they had Cheney's and Rumsfeld's ears.
Call it asabiyyah or esprit de corps but it's wild what a few guys who trust each other with their lives can achieve. 25 guys hijacked the entire U.S. foreign policy/military apparatus to launch a war on behalf of Israel. The "promoting democracy" stuff was post-facto face saving
"Without [AIPAC's] help, they would have struggled to secure the key advisory positions that enabled them to influence top decision makers and neutralise dissenting government agencies. Though the ultimate target of the lobby and the neoconservatives
was Tehran"
Incredible policy success story from Pennsylvania in the WSJ. It turns out if you just starve the beast, the bureaucrats immediately fall into line.
In 2011, this is exactly what Obama's Department of Education did to university bureaucracies. They threatened to cut federal funding in case they didn't take action against Title IX violations, which later came to include "hate speech" and White men's right to free association.
Obama administration simply threatened universities with pulling their federal funding if they didn't take the side of the woke. The incentives changed. That's how they took over the academy and culture without a shot fired. It's not Tumblr fandom or "cultural Marxism."
64% of global pharma revenues are captured in the U.S. market despite Americans making up only 4% of global population.
Americans are charged exorbitant prices so Third Worlders can have subsidized medicine. This is the real reason Democrats will never lower prescription costs.
No libtard academic today can give a cogent explanation for why Arabs began to think of themselves as white upon their encounter with Sub-Saharan Africans. These people believe the concept of race was invented during the Enlightenment.
A few illustrative examples of medieval Islamic texts:
The Pride of Blacks on Whites by Al-Jahiz
Sudan and their Ascendancy over Whites by Al-Marzaban
Promenade in Preference among Whites, Blacks and Coloured by Al-Suyuti
These are just texts that invoke the concept of whiteness in contrast to blackness in the *title.* You can find tons of literary texts drawing a strict contrast between whiteness and blackness in Muslim records going back more than a millennia. This book is a good resource.
French Communist Party didn't call for resistance to the German-occupation of France until Hitler invaded USSR a year later. Communists approached Vichy authorities to offer to testify against social democrats and liberals. Incredible levels of patriotism and loyalty on display.
French Communist (and socialist) role in the Resistance was minor and greatly exaggerated by postwar propaganda. The leader of the French Communist Party deserted the army and was living in Moscow during the war.
Careers of leftist intellectuals flourished during Nazi-occupation. Sartre and Louis Aragon continued to publish and had to request German authorization.
To compensate after the war, they endorsed rounding up anyone suspected of collaboration under flimsy evidence
Goldman Sachs is correct. No one actually knows the real Chinese GDP growth % in 2023. The US probably had higher GDP growth than China last year. China also stopped publishing tons of figures (like unemployment) that could be used to estimate GDP growth %.
One of the best indicators of future corporate profitability aside from stock prices is corporate debt-to-GDP.
China’s growth was heavily credit-fueled but the return on every borrowed dollar has been shrinking + servicing debt cuts into corporate profitability.
I don’t think China will ever overtake the U.S.
I don’t think it will collapse either. Just Japanification. Goldman Sachs’ reasoning is sound imo.