What Nationalism means to me
March 27th, 2010The word Nationalism has had a bad connotation since the 1940s and deservedly so. It was misused horribly by racist assholes.
But that doesn’t mean it’s entirely bad. America needs a good dose of nationalism right now. Our workers have been screwed over for decades. We’ve been outsourcing manufacturing jobs for decades and since the 90s, we’ve been outsourcing tech jobs. I knew since the early 00s that this would come back to bite us in the ass and it did. You cannot continually outsource more jobs than you create.
It’s time America started taking care of Americans. It’s time for us to withdraw troops overseas. Why are we still defending Europe? Let Europe defend itself. Why do we still have troops in Japan? Bring them home.
It’s time for us to stop taking sides in the Middle East. No matter what we do, they will hate us. It’s time for us to leave.
The third problem way we are screwing over the American workers is we’re bringing in illegals to undercut the Working Class. It’s time to send them home.
We have over a 10% unemployment. Why are we still outsourcing jobs overseas?
And to those who call me racist, I don’t know why I have to keep saying this. Americans have no race. We can be of any color. Any ethnicity. Any gender. Any sexual orientation. Any whatever. There is no average American. We are by far the most diverse country on the planet, so when I say we need to start taking care of Americans and some jackass calls me racist, it goes to show he’s an idiot. Ironically, every time he’s been white (and I’m not). Figures.
Let’s take care of business in our own country and stop playing saint everywhere else. No more foreign entanglements. No more sending more jobs overseas than we create. Obama promised to get rid of the tax incentives to outsource jobs overseas. Another promise he failed to keep.
It’s time America turned a little bit more Nationalistic.
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Just an fyi, I’m aware of the misuse of nationalism in history, but let’s not forget that it’s ALWAYS preceded by gun control. Just keep that in mind. I’m very much against gun control because I don’t want racist assholes taking over an American nationalistic movement. I obviously have a lot to lose. It’s time we dropped racism from nationalism and remember there is NO race to American.
Gun Rights are paramount to Freedom, and will ALWAYS be a line of defense against genocide. History has shown this over and over again
I am no military expert but I think the reason they leave the troops is to have established bases in those place as a deterrent and a base of ops in case.
I am with you on the nationalistic though. It makes me sick that we chose not to help the American worker and to help these other countries. I can’t even get a f*cking person on the phone that speaks good English when I need assistance. That has almost reached cliche status but it is true. I also think the unions have really really hurt the American work force and kept the employers from pushing harder to manufacture here. Also the huge regs. the govt puts on manufacturing here hurts it too in comparison to the cost on manufacturing overseas.
Anyway good post.
Wow where to begin.. You are right though. To many jobs going over seas or people hiring those that can work for less when they hired the women here during the wars to do the work the men were doing…
“A-B-C, It’s as easy as 1-2-3″
Just why can’t everyone see it that way?
“We have over a 10% unemployment. Why are we still outsourcing jobs overseas?”
Because the goal of capitalism is to increase profit margins and we’ve been taught for generations now that capitalism is what our country is built upon and things like social services and government regulation of business are “socialist,” that’s why.
Great point about racism. Those who want illegal immigrants to have the same rights as Americans and legal immigrants are resorting to McCarthy-like accusations to make weak-minded people feel guilty.
I would agree. You can’t really have a strong, healthy nation without some nationalism, can you? Canada needs to re-develop some nationalism too. There’s been a tendency lately to just go along with whatever the U.S. happens to be doing, whether it’s beneficial to Canadians or not.
I would propose that what you are asking for is not Nationalism at all, but rather what is known as Economic Protectionism. That is the process of the State restricting free trade through a series of tariffs, import quotas, and other onerous trade restrictions.
These types of policies would have an immediate impact on the price of goods, imported and domestic. Thus making it more difficult for those who are in that 10% unemployment category to afford their various needs. A better policy for reducing unemployment would be doing away with the minimum wage, making the barrier for employment lower to hurdle.
Nationalism, on the other hand, is the preference or one nationality over another based on nothing more than birth right. “I was born on this hunk of clay so I’m better than you”. It may or may not have elements of economic protectionism, but it *is* always bad. It is, as Einstein said, and infantile disease and the “measles of mankind.”