See also the book by the same title. D’Souza has written many powerful books and documentaries.
Many are outspoken about their hatred for America. Professor Ward Churchill, one of the most outspoken anti-American people, says people in the world trade centers deserved their punishment. Says he would drop a bomb on America. Howard Zinn was of the communist party, but left it for something more radical. He says America is intrinsically evil, and wants the youth of America to join in making it socialist.
Note: America has its share of sins and worldly ways, but here D’Souza speaks of those who hate the good parts of America – the freedoms, the individual responsibility, the opportunity to benefit from how much you chose to work, all the things that socialists stand against.
What if Hitler got the atomic bomb first? What if the civil war tore up the US into many nations? What if Washington was taken out by a sniper?
Note: The answer is that there would be much less freedom in the world. America is the great test of freedom. The Constitution is inspired by God, and is the best form of government we can hope to have. The contributions of America have been endless.
D’Souza predicted national debt double with Obama, it did. He predicted with Obama our enemies would get stronger and our allies weaker.
Lincoln said the USA will only fall from within. People in America want a world without America. People think that America is evil.
Obama didn’t create the socialist method, the method created Obama.
When Obama said we didn’t make the businesses we own, he was saying that we stole it. These things he uses to suggest that people should have the same amount of wealth. People say the big businesses are wealthy because they had the help of the police to protect them, and roads to drive on, etc., and that hence they should have no more wealth than anyone. But the truth is that everyone has equall public services, and equall opportunity to wealth. The ambulance doesn’t drive faster to the home of a wealthy man. It’s all equal public services, so we should not think that because the business had the help of local services that all should have equal wealth.
Some native American Indian activists think of America in terms of genocide, sorrow, and destruction. They think it merely stolen land to be returned to the natives. But in reality, even the natives stole the land. Conquest has determined who owns what for far longer than America.
There are activists trying to give back Texas and California, thinking we stole Mexico. America conquered all of Mexico, then got rid of its national debt and gave half of it back. Mexicans love America – they can prosper here. In Mexico they are heavily taxed and can’t bear arms. Many Mexicans would stay in America if Mexico was made bigger again, since Mexicans cross the border from Mexico to America illegally by about a million a year. There are no people illegally crossing the border to get to Mexico.
Abolitionist Frederick Douglas knew there were many problems in America, but he wanted to stay in America because the Constitution had things in it which would lead to liberty.
Howard Zinn is now required reading for some in high schools, he says that Columbus was evil.
Critics of America are raising the primary question of justice. The Declaration of Independence is a cry against injustice. Liberty was the solution to injustice. (Not socialism.)
Obama wants us to remake America, which entails pulling it apart. Obama’s remaking calls for economic redistribution more than ever heard of. He says our wealth is stolen and we must give it back.
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote “Democracy in America.” He saw Americans as very entrepreneurial. He said they were usually innovators. He saw how no one bows or scrapes below another, how it’s the only country where we call the waiter ‘sir’ as if he were a knight. He saw Christianity shaping people’s inner and political life, and wrote that religion must be regarded as the first of their political institutions. He saw how since we had Christian ideas, we tried to help others live ourselves, rather than trying to get the government to do it. He said slavery makes work not prosper, since they have no incentives to labor, and how owners become lazy for they need do no work. He knew slavery and treatment of native Americans was not unique to America; most countries are founded in conquest and had slaves; Historically every country has despised entrepreneurship as a means of wealth. they called it next to the lowest class. They say looting is better than making your own business, because one must be stronger or more manly than the guy they loot from. But America rose above that. America is built on a different idea, not conquest, but trade and entrepreneurship. That is how it has become wealthy unlike other nations.
India and China are getting less people in poverty because they shifted over to entrepreneurial systems, at least in part.
Manhattan in all its wealth and value, is the creation of who built the things on it, not the creation of who sold it when there was nothing on it. So, we can’t think that the formal owner of the land should benefit of all the things that are on that land (as many socialists advocate).
Note: This is a basic principle of civilization: you build it, you reap the benefits from it. This is why sly socialists like Obama say ‘you didn’t build that.’ It’s double speak – of course you built it. As D’Souza points out, we all have access to public roads, but you’re the one who stood up and did something. It’s basic theft – the idlers are trying to get their hands on what the industrious have made without having done the work themselves. We think that voting to steal is ok, but its not. That’s the entire premise of socialism, taking other people’s stuff because a mob agrees to do so.
Zinn blames America and Columbus for the sins of the Spanish etc., for crimes which happened hundreds of years before Columbus even came on the scene. Much of his history is simply dead wrong. He is re-writing history.
Native Americans being less by 80 percent now is not from genocide, but from them dying of disease.
Native Americans could go back to their former way of life they wanted, but many of them choose to make money by being entrepreneurs instead.
300,000 men of the north died in the civil war to secure the liberty for Africans, something they couldn’t restore for themselves.
Starting in 1618, white children were captured in London and sold in colonial America, it was called indentured servitude and was usually for 7 years. Often their term was extended or they died before it was over. They worked side by side with African slaves. There were 150,000 of these indentured servants.
Henry Lewis Gates is a scholar who speaks of 3500 blacks who owned more than 10 thousand black slaves. He says African slave owners were often in favor of slave breeding, something that even common slave owners thought detestable.
There were as many blacks who owned slaves as there were whites who owned slaves. Egyptians, Africans, most countries had slaves. What’s uniquely western is abolition of slavery.
Sara Breedlove was an African who started selling her own hair care products door to door. Also called Madam CJ Walker. She was the first self-made millionaire female in America. She told the people they have opportunity. She built her own factory on her own ground, and came from the worst of conditions. She was a first-generation free lady, her parents were slaves, and she was a widow with a child by age 20.
Note: These days such a person would go on welfare and never be expected to work. The welfare is a money trap, keeping a person from advancing, putting caps on how much money they can have before they lose welfare, making a large incentive to not work.
We are all a minority of one. As MLK Jr. said, we all must write our own emancipation proclamation.
Contrary to the Zenn narrative, we are not the bad guys of the world. We did not steal from the Vietnamese. We helped people in Iraq to have oil. We helped Afghanistan have food. We rebuilt Germany.
Despite what the socialists claim, America isn’t robbing the world. America creates its own wealth through capitalism. Native American Indians as well as Hispanics and African Americans have been able to live the American dream by working hard. The wealth of America is not based on theft, it’s created. Conquest is what the rest of the word believes, America believes in capitalism.
Note: Too many people think wealth is something to be distributed (you could call it legalized conquest; still immoral); wealth is actually something to be generated. Sure we share when we so choose, but forced distribution of wealth through heavy taxes is what stifles wealth generation. It’s been said that capitalism raises the tide, and lifts all the boats. Socialism then, drains the tide, and makes everyone poorer. I’d rather be on my way up with freedom than on my way down with big government and its heavy taxes.
Capitalism doesn’t work through coercion or conquest, it works at the will of the consumer. Like Steve Jobs who make the iPhone – we all want to buy that product, that’s why he’s rich. None of us are forced to buy it. Like Ben Affleck – he is a rich actor not because he has special skill, he is rich because of you, the people who want to watch his films. You are the reason he is rich.
Religious conservatives give 4x more away than the secular people who merely say they want there to be more help for the poor. These conservatives, especially the religious, spend more time giving and less time asking others to give.
Religion helps people to see not to rely on the government. One woman here interviewed said she lived on government welfare not wanting to get a job when she gets money for free. She lived this way for a long time, 7 years, until someone came to her with conviction and told her that the way she was living was not pleasing to God. Then she got over her entitled attitude, and started a business and lives on her own support now instead of sitting around at home thinking of how other people have wronged her.
America is a force for good, so why are people trying to make us feel bad for being Americans? It’s so they can sell us their political socialistic agenda which will give them power over us.
Note: It’s like in the Book of Mormon, where the desperate bad guys want the successful good guys to join them.
Hillary Clinton is a student of Saul Alinsky (who wrote Rules for Radicals and was openly against ‘social and religious’ dogma and who worked with communists). She even wrote her thesis on him. She thinks that the radicals should be the leaders in America. Saul Alinsky was a democratic socialist willing to see his beliefs installed into society slowly through the democratic process; he is far left; he wants the ‘haves’ to feel guilty, and the ‘have nots’ to feel wronged. Alinsky was trained by Nitti, the second man to Al Capone. He showed him how they had bad businesses, and how they were taking over good businesses. He showed them how they infiltrated businesses, the ins and outs of the mob business. The mob finds ways to get power legally and illegally. They find ways to use the laws to get corrupt power. Obama is a follower of Alinsky, he saw their conferences when a young man.
Obama gives the impression that he is with us and against insurance companies in Obamacare, but he is really for the insurance companies and against us. He is forcing people to buy insurance and insurance companies like that. Obama liked the government bailouts, giving the government power over those companies.
Hillary Clinton figured out the way, Obama is carrying it out. It’s the government collecting data on every American person so it can go after any particular group. Watching our internet searches, what magazines we read, what we buy, etc.
People think if they are not criminals who cares if people read their mail, but if the government doesn’t like what you do, they can find other things to tag you for. One man spoke against Nixon strongly and loudly, and they audited his business four times. Bad people find ways to highlight weaknesses of others to get their political desires.
Note: With how corrupted our laws are, when they want to, bad guys can get good guys in trouble. This is why we stand up for rights of privacy and keep our government small. Bad guys know that government is the most effective way to carry out their agenda. Good guys know that government should be small and limited, and that good things are carried out by the people, not the government.
One man wrote a book on how the average person does 3 things a day that a liberal justice person could call felonies. True, people need obey the law, but what’s happening is targeting certain people to punish them for everything they can, while letting the rest go.
Note: I remember learning about how 90% of crimes committed by US Presidents are by the Republican ones. What a joke! It’s the Republicans who get prosecuted, and the Democrats who go free.
Aaron Swartz spoke against liberalists and was targeted by the government.
In a critical year of Obama’s election, many conservatives were tagged by the government and attacked to help Obama win the election.
The Revolutionary War was to make America, the Civil War was to keep America together, WW2 was to protect America, our struggle now is for the restoration of America. Fight for America as though the outcome depended on us alone!
The world needs more Washingtons Lincolns and Reagans.
U2 band member Bono speaks of the American idea and how it’s not about left and right, it’s about right and wrong. The American idea is that if we have justice, leave it to us we will do the rest. He says America is the first to claw itself out of darkness and put justice on paper. He says the American idea is not copyrighted. (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfuOOwJxsdU video called “Bono Speech at Georgetown – Keeping Faith with the Idea of America”)
