AuH20
06-22-2013, 01:32 AM
Citizens of the world this is your destiny!!! Bask in the rays of the great lie!
http://freebeacon.com/world-without-boundaries/
Obama is also wrong to suggest that the only laggards in our journey toward a wall-less world are the tyrannous, the theocratic, and the ignorant. There are plenty of losers in this race to the top: the victim of late-term abortion, the child without a father, the single mother who struggles economically, the high-achiever of limited means whose race is a demerit on a college application, the low-skilled worker whose job has been outsourced to China or insourced to migrant labor, the independent contractor saddled with government regulations, taxes, and mandates, the violator of liberal speech codes and other institutes of political correctness, the gas guzzlers and gun owners, the addicted, the broken, the lonely. All these are left behind in a borderless world, handed transfer payments and told fortune-cookie aphorisms on equality and democracy, and every so often given a glimpse of the super-lux world inhabited by their rulers.
I am speaking of course about the global elite, the world-travellers and conference-goers that have benefited the most from the information revolution and the creation of what Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick call Chimerica. Right below them in this new hierarchy are the liberal upper- and upper-middle classes, the bobos and educated elites, that with the super rich make up the caste that benefits from low prices and low wage services and inhabits a shared universe of opinion unmatched in its arrogance and impenetrability.
What continues to puzzle liberals on the left and right is that the world championed by Obama is the same one plagued by income inequality and materialism, the same world divided by race and ethnicity and nation and religion. Frustrated and disappointed, clinging to illusions, these liberals double down on assertions of universality and autonomy. “We are not only citizens of America or Germany,” Obama said Wednesday. “We are also citizens of the world. And our fates and fortunes are linked like never before.” Do the Russians believe that? Do the Iranians?
Obama may be a citizen of the world, a guardian of the world without boundaries. The rest of us know some walls cannot be torn down. Some walls are there for a reason.
http://freebeacon.com/world-without-boundaries/
Obama is also wrong to suggest that the only laggards in our journey toward a wall-less world are the tyrannous, the theocratic, and the ignorant. There are plenty of losers in this race to the top: the victim of late-term abortion, the child without a father, the single mother who struggles economically, the high-achiever of limited means whose race is a demerit on a college application, the low-skilled worker whose job has been outsourced to China or insourced to migrant labor, the independent contractor saddled with government regulations, taxes, and mandates, the violator of liberal speech codes and other institutes of political correctness, the gas guzzlers and gun owners, the addicted, the broken, the lonely. All these are left behind in a borderless world, handed transfer payments and told fortune-cookie aphorisms on equality and democracy, and every so often given a glimpse of the super-lux world inhabited by their rulers.
I am speaking of course about the global elite, the world-travellers and conference-goers that have benefited the most from the information revolution and the creation of what Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick call Chimerica. Right below them in this new hierarchy are the liberal upper- and upper-middle classes, the bobos and educated elites, that with the super rich make up the caste that benefits from low prices and low wage services and inhabits a shared universe of opinion unmatched in its arrogance and impenetrability.
What continues to puzzle liberals on the left and right is that the world championed by Obama is the same one plagued by income inequality and materialism, the same world divided by race and ethnicity and nation and religion. Frustrated and disappointed, clinging to illusions, these liberals double down on assertions of universality and autonomy. “We are not only citizens of America or Germany,” Obama said Wednesday. “We are also citizens of the world. And our fates and fortunes are linked like never before.” Do the Russians believe that? Do the Iranians?
Obama may be a citizen of the world, a guardian of the world without boundaries. The rest of us know some walls cannot be torn down. Some walls are there for a reason.