I'm Grateful

For Modern Heating and Energy Availability in the USA, and for American's Willingness to Sacrifice their Selves for My Defense

I was just reading about EU disrespect of American customs and values. It’s a short essay by Kurt Schlichter in Town Hall.

He points out that, without the United States contribution of money and young people to the defense of the EU, they are going to be run over by more assertive enemies - i.e., Russia, the Mideast, and China.

It’s time American politicians took the real lessons of WWI and WWII, and realized that the Europeans had reverted to their earlier disclination to put THEIR bodies and fortunes on the line to keep invaders out of Europe. Actual NATIVE Europeans need to step up to their responsibilities to serve their country’s protection against invasion.

I kid, I kid.

Of COURSE they will not. They have trained their people to EXPECT that ‘lesser peoples’ - foreigners (whether from 3rd World countries or from the USA) will respond to their flaccid wave of their effete and perfumed hands directing their servants to defend their ‘castles’.

I followed that spirited takedown of EU superciliousness and arrogance with Charles C. W. Cooke’s rant about Europe (not my term, his).

In its current incarnation, Europe is a poor, corrupt, sclerotic, vampiric open-air museum, and its leadership class is full of priggish, dishonest, supercilious, rent-seeking parasites, whose boundless sense of superiority ought by rights to have vanished in 1901.

And, then, there is The Official European Mantra:

the contemporary European mantra — At Least We’re Not American — and, like many mantras, it is impervious to fact or repudiation. What about the massive gap in GDP that has opened up between the U.S. and Europe since 2008? At least we’re not American. What about the anemic performance of European companies relative to those in the United States? At least we’re not American. What about the gulf between GDP per capita in Europe and GDP per capita in the United States, or about the U.S.’s great advantages in biotech and energy and advanced semiconductors, or the fact that, if most European countries were to join the U.S., they’d have a lower standard of living than people do in Mississippi, or that the average European is six times more likely to die from a lack of heating or air conditioning than an American is from a gun, or that most European countries are unable to usefully project military power? At least we’re not American.

Somehow, that Bolded Section is never used to rebut the strident European attack on the Standard American Attitude Towards Guns in the Home.

The Europeans have been milking their Superiority Complex for generations. It’s their way of compensating for the poverty of their nations. That strategy for boosting their self-esteem is generational; they made up for their lack of money by boasting of their cultural superiority, their exquisite taste, and their sophisticated palates.

Bunk!

Europeans are smelly, rude, and lazy. Their national behavior is that of a teen boy who fancies himself SO much better than the parents who support him. He laughs at their crude manners, their bourgeois possessions, and their respect for the people who work for a living.

I refuse to be lectured by those whose economy America bolsters, whose military is heavily subsidized by us, and whose only hope of survival is to pin their hopes on our country, once again, taking pity on them after their feckless lack of attention to defense puts their continued existence as a nation/conglomeration of nations as risk.