Post by jabinkhatun908 on Feb 25, 2024 7:52:06 GMT
One Cant Help but Think That What Led Applebaum and Snyder to Oppose Trump So Strongly is Not So Much the Abstract Creed of Universal Human Rights and Democracy as the Wounded Narcissism of Two Members of the Elected Nation. Rather Than Simply Invoking a Universalist American Patriotism Snyder and Applebaum Should Question It. What Does It Mean to Be a Patriot of a Country That Has Its Military Bases in Most Other Countries in the World if Patriotism Means Defending Ones Countrys Sovereignty Against Interference by Other Nations What Authorizes American Patriots to Do to Others What They Do Not Want Others to Do to Them What Would Patriotism Look Like.
Without American Exceptionalism of the Efforts of Our Three Nostalgic Ers to Cope With the Collapse of Their Dreams Are Quite Miserable. Faced With the Global Rise of Nationalism Applebaum and Snyder Cling to a Specifically American Version of It While Germany Mobile Number List the Bulgarian Krastev Rationalizes It by Conceiving Nationalism as an Excessive Response to the Excesses of Liberalism as the Return of Strong National Identities That Liberalism Supposedly Repressed. With Their Nave Identification of the Us With the World Snyder and Applebaum Are Blind to Both Cultural Dynamics and Structural Data While Krastev and His Coauthor Holmes Neglect Structure and.
Political Economy in Favor of Culture and Psychology. Policy. As Convincing as His Account of the Contradictions of Imitation is He Ignores the Two Major and Much More Important Flaws of Post Liberalism Its Belief in the Spillover Effects of Capitalist Globalization and Its Faith in the Compatibility of Liberalism. Western With the Civilized Survival of Human Beings on the Planet. The Unviability of These Two Premises of Has Been Demonstrated With Two Catastrophic Events That for a Growing Number of People Are Now Less and Less Debatable the Socioeconomic Inequalities That Undermine Democratic Institutions and the Ecological Crisis That Undermines the Prospect of a Decent Life for Future Generations.