{"id":39079,"date":"2019-01-16T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=39079"},"modified":"2019-01-15T12:27:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T17:27:52","slug":"americas-resurgence-is-reshaping-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2019\/01\/americas-resurgence-is-reshaping-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"“America’s Resurgence Is Reshaping the World”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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America seems to be in a state of malaise on all sides\u2013thanks to Trump hatred, government shutdown, political paralysis, cultural dysfunctions, etc., etc.\u2013and there is a pervasive sense that the nation is undergoing a decline.\u00a0 But an outside perspective from another country is arguing that America is, in fact, in a state of \u201cresurgence\u201d that is \u201creshaping the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The controversial Canadian businessman Conrad Black<\/a>\u00a0in that country\u2019s\u00a0National Post\u00a0<\/em>marvels at the strength of the American economy\u2013stressing details I had not thought about\u2013and dissects the problems of Europe, Russia, China, the Middle East, and other global players, saying that the United States is forcing reforms that the whole world needs.<\/p>\n

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Such success does not, of course, mitigate our cultural woes\u2013as we discussed in the Tucker Carlson post<\/a>\u2013but it is worth reflecting upon.<\/p>\n

From Conrad Black, America\u2019s resurgence is reshaping the world:<\/a><\/p>\n

In fact, the economy of the United States is astoundingly strong: full employment, an expanding work force, negligible inflation and about three per cent economic growth. And it is a broad economic recovery, not based on service industries as in the United Kingdom (where London handles most of Europe\u2019s financial industry, while most of British industry has fled), and not based largely on the fluctuating resources markets as has often been Canada\u2019s experience. In the eight years of president Obama, the United States lost 219,000 manufacturing jobs; in the two years of Trump, the country has added 477,000 manufacturing jobs. This was not supposed to be possible, and this time, unlike in the great Reagan boom, it cannot be dismissed by the left (and it was false in the eighties) as a profusion of \u201chamburger flippers, dry cleaners and people delivering pizza,\u201d (all necessary occupations). . . .<\/p>\n

Every U.S. president starting with Dwight Eisenhower has bewailed American dependence on foreign oil. Foreigners then supplied 10 per cent of America\u2019s oil, a figure that rose to 60 per cent under president Obama, and no one has done anything about it, until the past two years, when oil production has been sharply increased and reliance on oil imports has been sharply cut, on its inexorable way to zero. For decades, whenever the U.S. made purposeful noises about doing the necessary to reduce oil imports, the Saudis engineered a cut in the international price and American will collapsed backwards into the contemptible torpor of declining powers. All that has changed.<\/p>\n

[Keep reading. . .]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Black says that the trade war with China is working to rein in that country\u2019s bad behavior\u2013and that it is greatly appreciated by Japan and India\u2013that Korea is now on its best behavior, and that \u201cthe Ayatollah\u2019s are quaking.\u201d\u00a0 I was most interested in his take on the European Union\u2013with France, Germany, Italy, and Spain all in disarray\u2013and with Great Britain leaving.\u00a0 He said that the Commonwealth countries, the remnants of the British empire including Canada and Australia, have long been dismayed at the U.K.\u2019s cozying up to Europe at their expense.\u00a0 Now the U.K. is breaking away from the E.U., though it cannot figure out how to do so.<\/p>\n

He concludes, \u201cThrough it all, the United States, appearing to be disorderly, its establishment and media at war with the occupant of the White House, is demonstrating almost effortlessly how illusory is the idea that any other country or group of countries can challenge its pre-eminence among the world\u2019s nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

So Americans have much to be thankful for, things that we have been taking for granted or been oblivious to.\u00a0 But, again, in light of all of this good news, why are we so depressed?<\/p>\n

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Photo by geralt via Pixabay, Creative Commons License<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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