Jim Webb - Demokratisk kandidat til presidentvalget og hans meninger utsagn det Amerikanske samfunn og politikere

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Jeg leste nettopp denne artikkelen: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/15/jim-webb-s-long-war-with-his-own-party.html

 

Den var virkelig oppsiktsvekkende og økte min positivtet til kandidaten. Han er en intelligent mann, med lang erfaring i millitære, som forfatter, har et termin som governør og har arbeidet i kabinettet til Ronald Reagan.

 

Han var motstander mot Irak-krigen i 2003 og meldte seg ut av det Republikanske parti etter det. Han ble så en Demokrat. Han har en rekke sosialdemokratiske tanker, blant annet har han forkjærlighet for arbeiderklassen, uansett kjønn, rase og andre kjennetegn. Han har blant annet uttalt at problemet til de lavere samfunnslag i USA er at de ikke sammarbeider, kjemper for felles interesser, men at det isteden blir en kamp for ekstraretter for ulike etniske grupperinger og kjønn. Splittelsen gjør at ingen får det bedre.

 

Det jeg likte spesielt godt i denne artikkelen er disse avsnittetene:

 

“It is difficult to explain to my children that in my teens and early twenties the most frequently heard voices of my peers were trying to destroy the foundations of American society, so that it might be rebuilt according to their own narcissistic notions,” he wrote in 1997, in an article for the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

 

“In retrospect it’s hard even for some of us who went through those times to understand how highly educated people—most of them spawned from the comforts of the upper-middle class—could have seriously advanced the destructive ideas that were in the air during the late ’60s and early ’70s. Even Congress was influenced by the virus.”

 

In that same article, he concludes: “And what of these elites who misread not only a war [om Vietnamkrigen] but also their own countrymen? Where are they now, other than in the White House?”

 

Videre, om venstresiden behandling av hvite i sør-statene:

 

“The culture so dramatically symbolized by the Southern redneck [is] the greatest inhibitor of the plans of the activist Left and the cultural Marxists for a new kind of society altogether. And for the last fifty years the Left has been doing everything in its power to sue them, legislate against their interests, mock them in the media, isolate them as idiosyncratic, and publicly humiliate their traditions in order to make them, at best, irrelevant to America’s future growth.”

 

Webb goes on to describe “rednecks” as an “obstacle to the collectivist taming of America, symbolized by the edicts of political correctness.”

 

When outgoing President Clinton was assailed for his midnight pardons in 2001, Webb wrote: “It is a pleasurable experience to watch Bill Clinton finally being judged, even by his own party, for the ethical fraudulence that has characterized his entire political career.” But Webb was onstage when Clinton campaigned for him in the closing days of the 2006 Senate race.

 

But for Webb’s basic set of beliefs? As late as April 30, on the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, he said that a “very liberal, anti-war Congress” cut off funding to the South Vietnamese shortly before Saigon fell to the Vietcong. “If our political leaders had done a better job with their duty, we may have seen a different situation in Vietnam,” he said.

 

Is this an echo of what Barack Obama once called “dorm room arguments of the sixties”? In some sense, yes. President Obama now greets the head of the Vietnamese Communist Party at the White House; the U.S. and Vietnam have been trading partners for the better part of 20 years. And Webb’s 2002 warnings about Iraq are in marked contrast to Hillary Clinton’s vote for that war (and her assertions at the time that there may have been a link between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and al Qaeda).

 

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Elsker måten han skriver på Det meste er sant og.