horse of george

"... it's not that the left hopes for an American decline per se, it's rather that they long for a diminished stature for those things that confoundedly compromise their sense of superiority while conversely seeming to enhance the America they feel compelled to despise - money, a vigorous business ethos, a restive, opinionated and independent citizenry that tends to distrust elites, a powerful military held in high regard by the people who actually believe it exists to serve and safeguard their rights and liberties and not those of their would be masters - it's these things they abjure, which the left sometimes can admit may lend a certain greatness to America within a narrow context, but have the unfortunate effect of marginalizing a world view liberals value and a view therefore that must exist in order to validate all the good things they want to believe about themselves... in other words, they don't see their agenda so much as a weakening of America but rather as an evolution towards a state of affairs more inclined to raise them up and reward them accordingly and consequently a state of affairs that must inherently be better... that America may appear weaker in relative terms would be judged irrelevant since those terms would no longer be considered important... and if certain people or competing countries or hostile powers were to stubbornly insist on continuing to believe those terms important despite assurances from the evolved left that they were wrong then that would be judged irrelevant too..."