tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306935107490146994.post8354158071884869820..comments2023-10-20T05:32:59.237-04:00Comments on Culturism: Culturism, the Tea Party, and Foreign PolicyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13125582808962457170noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306935107490146994.post-20729823596181758532010-06-16T11:47:15.738-04:002010-06-16T11:47:15.738-04:00I think this blog raises some excellent points. W...I think this blog raises some excellent points. We can't simply cut off our participation in world affairs, dig holes and bury our heads in the sand. Taking an isolationist approach to foreign policy is dangerous. At the same time, the Bush Doctrine adn the need to spread democracy is equally dangerous and expensive. It too is based on the false assumption that all people crave democracy and by creating democratic governments we will create allies. That simply is not the case and in most instances where democracy has been imposed by foreign powers, it has been subverted (Weimar Republic for one). Democracy is fragile and must always be protected for forces of evil. That is a job for citizens, not foreign powers. <br /><br />I agree with the concept of a culturalist foreign policy. Our policies for the past 60 years have failed in most instances because we did not have a solid understanding of our enemies culteral and theological world view. This is certainly true when it comes to the growing Islamist menace. The Islamist menace has excisted since the days when Mohammed walked this earth and grows increasingly bellicose in recent years. We must be prepared to stomped out all forms of Jihadism, whether it layws in pseudo "peaceful" organizations that seek to subvert our culture and government from within by joining with the far left to purge our country of American values--or the equally virulent form that seeks to physically destroy us. We must know and understand our enemy so that we can defeat it. <br /><br />Stop Obama and the left wing agenda. No surrender!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306935107490146994.post-57226715220346922542010-05-10T14:53:51.235-04:002010-05-10T14:53:51.235-04:00No. Culturally you cannot "fight" Islam...No. Culturally you cannot "fight" Islam nor can you "convert" Islam. It is inconsolable and unchanging.<br /><br />America IS a culture itself when those who wish to join -- in fact -- DO SO. And this would include speaking the language and immersing in the culture itself, a thing called "assimilation."<br /><br />BZBloviating Zeppelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306935107490146994.post-39695468624854544642010-05-09T19:13:31.262-04:002010-05-09T19:13:31.262-04:00Anonymous,
You are completely wrong in your as...Anonymous,<br /><br /> You are completely wrong in your assertion that culturism sells an interventionist agenda. I hoped in the article it was clear that culturism, apart from acts of aggression, advocates letting other nations be.<br /><br /> Your second point, about the Constitution sanctioning cultures is more interesting. At the time of the Constitution, this was an overwhelmingly Christian - European (even Protestant) nation. Many founders considered an ethical disposition essential to sustaining a republic. <br /><br /> Other nations and cultures have not been able to maintain or create democracies. Mexico, Iran, and China provide three great examples. Culturism agrees that culture is that important. They do not need to have democracy; they have other organizatioal systems. <br /><br /> Whereas separation of Church and State is possible,separation of Mosque and State proves much more difficult. American culturism holds that we have a right to only allow cultures in to the nation that seem compatable with democracy. Your apparent indifference to culture and our Constitution seems a good argument for blurring borders and globalism. From a culturist perspective, that way lies intervention.<br /><br />Thanks! www.culturism.usAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13125582808962457170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306935107490146994.post-26530122024939794322010-05-09T15:58:59.521-04:002010-05-09T15:58:59.521-04:00Culturism is a clever way of selling an interventi...Culturism is a clever way of selling an interventionist agenda. I don't buy your basic premise, that the majority culture has the right to use force to entrench itself. That makes no more sense than a government-dictated political party or government-dictated religion. The Tea Party is at heart about the Constitution, and the Constitution does not privilege cultures.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com