Coulter: Venezuela: We're Nation-Building...the USA; Things Were Better When We Called the Shots in Latin America

This is the kind of post that would have sent me through the roof ten years ago.

   And, in fact, it was the GOP's support for Latin American strongmen like Pinochet that helped drive me to the Dems early in my political life. I agreed with fighting socialism and communism there (and I still believed in "democratic socialism")...but I thought that Republicans like Jesse Helms were way too eager to support people like Pinochet.

   I still think that attitudes like Coulter's are of a kind that you have to keep firmly under control, lest they wreck you.

   But...God help me...I'm pretty sympathetic to them now.

   I no longer think we can save the Third World. And we can't leave it alone in our own hemisphere...largely because the Democrats have decided to let all the criminals and refugees from all those failed states in here. And that will destroy the country. First by putting more Democrats in office...and, partially thereby, turning us into a less-than-First-World nation. Mostly, though, just by importing the kinds of people who constitute such countries.

   Import the Third World, become the Third World...

   And: giving them money now seems to me to be of dubious value.

   And we can no longer afford it.

   Anyway.

   I'm not happy about thinking this way. I used to be one of those chirpy Democrats that blithely insisted that everybody in the whole world was an American waiting to be liberated. Also, that's one of the many false beliefs that make you a good person, of course. According to our cultural betters.

    My problem is that I have a hard time making myself believe obvious falsehoods.

   Which is why I'm such a bad person.