British Wisdom
Daniel Hannan is a British member of Parliament who has become famous from his scathing criticism of Prime Minster Gordon Brown and the British socialist model. Recently he appeared on the Sean Hannity show and among the things he said was this:
Watch the full interview below. Transcript from above begins at 5:18:
Your country is great and prosperous and free because government is constrained and because the visionaries who wrote your Constitution - who knew what they were doing when they drafted that document and who understood where unconstrained government leads because they fought against it - they created a system of checks and balances that would keep the State small and the Citizen big. Now if you start going down this road towards a more European welfare model, a more European health care model, more public spending, more spending on education, being nicer in your foreign policy, all of those things – you make your country less American, you make it more like everywhere else. And that isn't going to make people like you any more; it's going to make them respect you less. The reason that your country is respected and honored in the world is precisely because it has been as your founders understood, it's been the city on the hill, it's shown us how by adopting a model based on personal freedom and the decentralization of power based on Jeffersonian democracy and dispersed decision-making how you can make people prosperous and successful and strong. And the world owes you a debt, because the vision of your Constitution didn't just keep you free, it inspired your fathers to take that freedom to other continents as well.This is absolutely brilliant analysis, and it makes me proud to be an American. It also arouses anger in me towards the liberal mindset espoused by our leaders in government - spearheaded by the President himself - that suggests that America is arrogant, shameful, and should be embarrassed of itself.
Watch the full interview below. Transcript from above begins at 5:18:
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