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2025-08-23 Home Front: Politix

Who Should They Give Florida to? A Primer for Friedrich Merz

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Posted by badanov 2025-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [146 views ] Top

#1 ...In fairness, for far too many European elites, the US consists of NY, FL, DC, TX, and CA, with a dark scary place between those places that decent people shouldn't concern themselves with.

In Barbara Tuchman's The March Of Folly, she points out that during the British colonial era before the Revolution, not a single King's minister ever visited the colonies. They knew only what they were told by their own kind - that Americans were a barely civilized class of marginally violent smugglers, conmen, and layabouts whose primary goal was to deprive His Majesty's Exchequer of its rightful income. A surprising amount of the things that happened next can be laid to that ignorance, and I feel a lot of the people who run Europe these days could benefit from that experience.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-08-23 07:52|| 2025-08-23 07:52|| Front Page Top

#2 So, should England be returned to the Picts and Celts?

Posted by ed in texas 2025-08-23 08:50|| 2025-08-23 08:50|| Front Page Top

#3 The difference is that we have the will and capacity to deport the folks who have invaded our country.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-08-23 08:52|| 2025-08-23 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Jean François Revel’s Anti-Americanism addresses the development of the strange ideas they have in Britain and Europe about America. It is unfortunately not available as an ebook. Pn the other hand, Claremont has a review that is a reasonably quick introduction to the ideas.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-08-23 09:11|| 2025-08-23 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 that Americans were a barely civilized class of marginally violent smugglers, conmen, and layabouts whose primary goal was to deprive His Majesty's Exchequer of its rightful income

Sort of a proto-Australia, if you will. Yay, us!

Posted by SteveS 2025-08-23 09:36|| 2025-08-23 09:36|| Front Page Top

#6 So they're up to giving back East Prussia* to Germany?

* colonized and ethnically cleansed by the Soviet Union in 1945, renamed Kaliningrad.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-23 09:40|| 2025-08-23 09:40|| Front Page Top

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