From Geoffrey Clarfield from the American Thinker
If you read this playful and creative article with proper intent, there is kernel of a fine idea that begins with the US, moves out into the Anglosphere and beyond. Worth considering.
Donald Trump talks about annexing Canada, doing a deal with Greenland, and reasserting US rights in Panama, all to the hilarity of the mainstream media.
“Will you rule out sanctions or military action?” they ask. “I won’t rule out anything,” he replies.
Shock. Horror. Their takeaway: Trump lies. See, he will start wars.
This is all part of the panoply of political theatre that is currently playing in America.
However, let’s take seriously Trump’s focus on Canada, Greenland, and Panama. First, the obvious points:
1. America wouldn’t want wimpy Canada until it proves it isn’t a clone of California and has no debt.
2. Greenland can make a choice, and Denmark will probably cooperate…for a fee.
3. Panama is just the reversal of a very bad Democrat decision. There are likely a lot of those coming over the next four years.
4. The Gulf of America? Why not?
But let’s go further. Imagine a map of the world and ask yourself which nations might like to become part of “Greater America,” the Land of the Free. Then, look at the same map and ask yourself which nations America might want under its umbrella. The latter is not a NATO-friendly list.
But how about those in the first category, the ones who might want to join us? Which could earn the right to become an American state or protectorate, or any of the myriad structural entities fit the bill? So, here are some ideas to play around with:
America should offer to the world the chance to be part of America—part of the winning team—but its not an easy membership. The countries would have to adopt the American Bill of Rights and the United States Constitution as the starting point.
There would be other criteria: No or negligible debt, Judeo-Christian sensibilities, probably English speaking (or willing to make it the second language), accepting the US Dollar, and withdrawing from the UN, WHO, EU, and all corrupt world organizations. (The U.S. should do all of these things, too.)
A nation would apply for US constitutional status, and the American people would decide.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if, 250 years after 1776, there developed a Commonwealth of America, even as Britain sinks under the oceans that made it great for all those centuries? The baton passes.
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4 Responses
Leaving aside that while America has among the few cultures that generate any pushback, it is also the home of Woke and every major left wing force or trend for decades, and so a dangerous patron, as a Canadian I have no wish to be under any greater degree of American supremacy than geopolitics makes necessary, still less any seriously institutional mechanism that would subject our sovereignty more formally to theirs, nor any greater influence of their highly variable but often disgusting popular and media cultures than geography and technology have already made unavoidable.
In my lifetime [1970-] their cultural influence has shaped Canada more and more, and most of it bad. Demographics and rap music alone were enough. An influx of college trained Americans who seemed to heavily reshape our Education schools and the psychology profession from the 60s and 70s onward likely also count as a net negative.
I think it is fair to say and would be supported by the researchers at Wokewatch.ca, that most of the crazy leftist ideas and practises brought to the US by Democrats were first implemented by the left leaning Canadian establishment. I lived through it. Canada has been “woke incubator” of the United States and most recently an unopposed host of Iranian and Chinese adventurism within our borders.
Try this: https://wokewatchcanada.substack.com/p/fulcrum-and-pivot?utm_source=publication-search
I’m willing to buy “first implemented by Canadian establishment” but less willing to buy origin, when I look at the roles played by American universities and similar intellectual [to use the term generically] creators/advocates over any timeframe between the last ten or the last fifty years.
That is to say, I can see it being implemented more easily here because of lack of resistance. But I’m going to have to look at what that site is saying before I’m willing to credit Canada’s normally derivative intellectual environment with being the origin of much. Especially when we have decades of American third wave feminists and critical theorists in every discipline and an academic and media environment in the US not much accustomed to importing major ideas. Not since they overtook European Marxxists in the 60s or so.
Iranian and Chinese adventurism seems like a different thing altogether than woke, and I agree. It’s easier to do that here than in the US. Also, Indian adventurism, famously.
Please find Robertson Davies fabulous essay “The Canada of Myth and Reality” that I think he wrote in the sixties at the height of his fine career as a novelist. He clearly says “Canada is socialist.” I did not say it and Davies was a non fan of the US ana dedicated Anglophile who spoke with a fabricated posh Oxford accent. He was not reading American leftists.