The World Doesn't Hate America; the Left Does
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- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:05:48 -0800 (PST)
The World Doesn't Hate America; the Left Does
By Dennis Prager
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, November 27, 2007
One of the most widely held beliefs in the contemporary world -- so
widely held it is not disputed -- is that, with few exceptions, the
world hates America. One of the Democrats' major accusations against
the Bush administration is that it has increased hatred of America to
unprecedented levels. And in many polls, the United States is held to
be among the greatest obstacles to world peace and harmony.
But it is not true that the world hates America. It is the world's
left that hates America. However, because the left dominates the
world's news media and because most people, understandably, believe
what the news media report, many people, including Americans, believe
that the world hates America.
That it is the left -- and those influenced by the left-leaning news
and entertainment media -- that hates America can be easily shown.
Take Western Europe, which is widely regarded as holding America in
contempt, but upon examination only validates our thesis. The French,
for example, are regarded as particularly America-hating, but if this
were so, how does one explain the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as
president of France? Sarkozy loves America and was known to love
America when he ran for president. Evidently, it is the left in France
-- a left that, like the left in America, dominates the media, arts,
universities and unions -- that hates the U.S., not the French.
The same holds true for Spain, Australia, Britain, Latin America and
elsewhere. The left in these countries hate the United States while
non-leftists, and especially conservatives, in those countries hold
America in high regard, if not actually love it.
Take Spain. The prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004, Jose Maria
Aznar, is a conservative who holds America in the highest regard. He
was elected twice, and polls in Spain up to the week before the 2004
election all predicted a third term for Aznar's party (Aznar had
promised not to run for a third term). Only the Madrid subway
bombings, perpetrated by Muslim terrorists three days before the
elections, but which the Aznar government erroneously blamed on Basque
separatists, turned the election against the conservative party.
There is another obvious argument against the belief that the world
hates America: Many millions of people would rather live in America
than in any other country. How does the left explain this? Why would
people want to come to a country they loathe? Why don't people want to
live in Sweden or France as much as they wish to live in America?
Those are rich and free countries, too.
The answer is that most people know there is no country in the world
more accepting of strangers as is America. After three generations,
people who have emigrated to Germany or France or Sweden do not feel
-- and are not regarded as -- fully German, French or Swedish. Yet,
anyone of any color from any country is regarded as American the
moment he or she identifies as one. The country that the left
routinely calls "xenophobic" and "racist" is in fact the least racist
and xenophobic country in the world.
Given that it is the left and the institutions it dominates --
universities, media (other than talk radio in America) and unions --
that hate America, two questions remain: Why does the left hate
America, and does the American left, too, hate America?
The answer to the first question is that America and especially the
most hated parts of America -- conservatives, religious conservatives
in particular -- are the greatest obstacles to leftist dominance.
American success refutes the socialist ideals of the left; American
use of force to vanquish evil refutes the left's pacifist tendencies;
America is the last great country that believes in putting some
murderers to death, something that is anathema to the left; when
America is governed by conservatives, it uses the language of good and
evil, language regarded by the left as "Manichean"; most Americans
still believe in the Judeo-Christian value system, another target of
the left because the left regards all religions as equally valid (or
more to the point, equally foolish and dangerous) and regards God-
based morality as the moral equivalent of alchemy.
It makes perfect sense that the left around the world loathes America.
The final question, then, is whether this loathing of America is
characteristic of the American left as well. The answer is that the
American left hates the America that believes in American
exceptionalism, is prepared to use force to fight what it deems as
dangerous evil, affirms the Judeo-Christian value system, believes in
the death penalty, supports male-female marriage, rejects big
government, wants lower taxes, prefers free market to governmental
solutions, etc. The American left, like the rest of the world's left,
loathes that America.
So what America does the American left love? That is for those on the
left to answer. But given their beliefs that America was founded by
racists and slaveholders, that it is an imperialist nation, that 35
million Americans go hungry, that it invades countries for corporate
profits, and that it is largely racist and xenophobic, it is a fair
question.
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