Power

America represents about 20% of the worlds GDP.  Combined with that of the EU, and the "Western World" generates just about 45% of the GDP of the planet.

Why?

Arguably, the "Western World" is the youngest of the tribes, yet by huge margins, the most productive, with the highest standards of living.

Lefty's will claim it is because we have exploited the rest of the world.  But, why is it when one looks at the inventions and contributions to humanity, such a disproportionate number of items on the list come from the "Western World"?  Why is there such a large population of the world's oldest tribes that still live in huts, while there is not one Western Country with such a low standard of living?

The Asian cultures are nearest Western, yet the GDP of Texas, California and New York are essentially equal to the entire GDP of Japan.  China, the world's second largest economy, is matched by the cumulative total of the top 15 States in America.  The least productive State in America (2008 numbers) is Vermont, yet it still ranks at about 108 on the list of world economies, beating out some 70+ nations.

Militarily America has no equal.  Texas could probably invade and hold 75% of the countries in the world if they chose to do so.

As bad as things are in America, let us not lose sight of how great - exceptional - we are. 

The only way America will lose our status as the most productive and innovative nation the world has ever known is if we permit the most stupid among us to give it away...

The most stupid among us are doing that, aided by the fact that as a nation too many of our Countrymen are becoming ignorant and detached from traditional American and Western values.

There will come a time in our beloved America when we will be faced with the need to rid ourselves of the immoral and treasonous among us, or yield everything that is good about our species, and what humanity can be.  There is not a single culture on the planet that can advance the species as can our tribe, if we return to our traditional American values.  Even other Western cultures can not compete with American values.  The entire Western world combined barely matches our productivity.  The real advances as a species did not occuer until America came into existence.

We are the best in the world because we refused to be like the rest of the world.

If we assume their values, (or lack of values), Western or non-Western, we surrender the best culture that has ever existed.

If we assume their values, we deserve what we will get...lower standards of living, tyrants, poverty, more disease, more war...

Kerodin
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