I don’t care what Europe thinks

I don’t care a whit if the rest of the world likes our country or not. I don’t care if the rest of the world looks down their pointed noses at us. And I don’t care what they think about Americans like me who insist on immigration enforcement (which is not to be confused with immigration reform) and oppose abortion as a means of birth/population control. And I certainly don’t care that they are more hung up on the color of our president than many of the overwhelming number of blacks that voted for President Obama simply because he is black.

At last glance (and hopefully forever), this is the Untied States of America, not a flawed relic of governance that resulted in a people unable to think outside the box of socialism and socialist strategies.

Recently, I met in my Washington, D.C., office with a foreign delegation from another country. The group was comprised of public officials, business leaders, educators, elected officials and special advisers. They had specifically requested to meet with me during their visit to learn more about the work of Project 21, the conservative black think tank.

They were shocked that I did not view myself as an African-American, but rather as an American who was black – that while I was very much aware of the spectacular contributions individual blacks made to America, I was more proud of them as Americans first.

The group was fixated on the color of President Obama, rather than what his policies were – and voiced strong discontent that I didn’t share their view pursuant to same. I explained that I would have felt exactly the same way had Justice Thomas, Alan Keyes or Shelby Steele been elected president. I explained that skin color was secondary to my positions, with the content of a person’s character being singularly important.

If President Obama fails, let him do so as an American president, not as a black man. If his policies lead America to the abyss of failed socialism, let it be as a president who embraced flawed political theories, not as a black man who wasn’t smart enough to get the job done. The America I believe in is more expansive than that. And if Europe is so smitten with the color of a man’s skin, let them elect a black president.

America is but 200-plus years old, and yet we have exceeded what the self-imagined sophisticated and supposedly superior Europeans have done on any number of different levels, including having elected a person of color to be president.

In an effort to be polite, I will say they “quizzed” me on our health care system, which they condemned as inferior because it supposedly doesn’t take care of everyone. They spoke in celebratory soliloquies about Sweden’s system of health care. But that belief is a pure canard, because it doesn’t work, as Dr. Walter Williams so eloquently and succinctly pointed out in his piece “Sweden’s government health care” (March 4).

One member of the group was particularly aggrieved with my opposition to abortion. America, in that person’s eyes, would be a better place if all restraints on abortion were removed. This person and others of the group scoffed at my voiced concerns per illegal immigration and the economic drain illegals place on our communities, the threat many of them pose to our safety, and their blatant violation of our sovereignty.

Look, I don’t condemn Europe. Its a nice place to visit – I know, I’ve been there – but I don’t want to live there and I don’t want to live under their model of government, which Obama seems predisposed to emulate vis-à-vis Keynesian economics (read socialism), socialized health care and abortion on demand without restraint.

Our Founding Fathers and the framers of our Constitution were intelligent and insightful men. There is a reason they founded America as a republic juxtaposed to a democracy, and based same on “of the people, for the people and by the people” – as opposed to government rule.

Europe’s quasi-socialist form of control hasn’t worked anywhere it has been tried. So to that point, why would I care what they think? What successes can they point to after hundreds of centuries that America has not equaled and eclipsed in a scant 200-plus years?

If they don’t like us, that’s fine – they can stop taking American taxpayer money, and the next time they need military help, let them call Castro or Hugo Chavez.

 

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