Moving Right

Obama's recent apology tour only highlights the bizzare self-flagulating idea in our country that somehow we have wronged Europe in some way. This sort of delusion is fed by the fact that some people believe France and Germany constitute "Europe" as a whole. For example while condemning George Bush for not buildng a "coalition" the world made every excuse in the book for the fact that 40 nations had pledged support. From a "few" troops to only having "techincal" support it was always in the best interests of the left to point out that France and Germany weren't supporting the Iraq invasion. It was irrelevant that nations who had lived under the tyranny and oppression of communisim and yearned for closer ties with America contributed to the cause. Also left out was the fact that we now have proof, evidenced by communique that have been recovered that France was acting as a defacto advisor to Saddam before the invasion.
None of this matters currently however, to an important change that the media fails to report on and that is the rightward drift of politican's in those formerly hostile countries.
Of course I don't mean they are listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. What I do mean is that in France and Germany center right government's have taken control and that is a total repudiation of virtually all socialist agendas in those countries.
Does anyone seriously think Sarkozy has a streak of Obama in him? Or Merkl is an Al Gore in heels?

The point is around the world Right Wing style governments are coming in to power like never before. Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Poland etc.... What has driven these countries to a rightward tilt is the realization that their social welfare programs are destroying their countries.
While we turn toward the left we do so at the expense of examining the causes of right wing ascendancy around the world. We do this because we are America and we think that we can get things right that have failed miserably around the world.

The left still speaks of the glories of socialized medicine without realizing that those same countries are being forced to ration health care, meaning the older you are the less likely you are to get treatments of many kinds. It means that the most advanced medicines may not be available to you because the government can't afford them.
So while the rest of the world is grappling with 30 years of miserable economic policies that have devastated their economies, we act like we can do better.
Well, we can't.
America is better because of the prinicipals of LIMITED government. The left doesn't believe in that at all and yet the world is full of failed leftist ideologies.
Are people beating a path to North Korea to flee the democratic South? Are people running away from Tiawan in droves to the safety of Communist China?? Did the Berlin Wall exist to keep people out of the glorious East??? Are people fleeing Florida in rickety boats to escape to the land of Cuba???
Greater government control has ALWAYS lead to tyranny. The same people who worry about the government peeking at their LIBRARY records are only too happy to allow that same govrnment access to their private healthcare records. How's that for a contradiction.
Obama will move us further left.
Hopefully in 4 years we will have learned our lessons. If it takes us 30......it may be too late.