This is my own little campaign to the US people
Since im from Denmark and can obviously not vote in the US election. But I can't help to care about it as many other people around the world.
It's ironic, since a campaign issue in the US is "foreign interference" in our electoral system. And no, the shrieking hasn't been coming from our allegedly "xenophobic" right, it's almost entirely from our left. So... how is a foreigner like yourself trying to influence American voters not 'foreign interference'?
Im not the greatest fan of Biden, but he can only be better than Trump.
Why? One of the most annoying things about the Biden campaign is that it's so cagey about explaining precisely what their vision is for the country and for the world. Instead, the whole campaign seems centered on 'Trump sucks!'
Perhaps part of that is because many of their policy positions aren't winners with the American people. So keep the agenda in the closet and attack the opponent.
So if you are in doubt, it might be worth watching these two video (Despite them being a bit long) and vote with your heart and for a more equal US in the future.
I'm very much for that. But I suspect that you and I wouldn't agree on how to accomplish it.
I favor the American Middle Class. The reason why the US has never had the kind of class-division politics that have torn Europe and much of the world apart is because most Americans identify as 'middle class', neither rich nor poor, but kind of in-between. That's the secret of the United States' extraordinary stability over the last going-on 250 years. The US is still on its first republic. How many has France been through in the same period of time?
I favor America continuing as an industrial power. We can't be constantly off-shoring all of our manufacturing jobs without hollowing out and destroying many cities and regions. And what happens to our geopolitical strength when all of our steel, electronics and ship-building has been transferred to China? What will become not only of us, but of everyone (like Denmark) who depends on us and shelters in the protection we provide? It's a recipe for doom, for the destruction of Western civilization.
I favor diversity of opinion and free-expression of ideas. I'm hugely concerned about the continuing left-politization of the media, journalism, entertainment, higher-education and even sport. Everyone who sees it as their role to shape what other people think. We have entered an age when we can be fired from our jobs and even be physically assaulted... for expressing support for the President of the United States! We are much closer to
1984's Ministry of Truth than many people realize.
I favor nationalism, not in any aggressive militaristic sense, but in the sense of a community sharing ideas and values in common. Since ideas and values around the world vary, there should be a multitude of communities all with the autonomy to shape their own domestic affairs, provided they don't threaten their neighbors. Americans mustn't try to reshape the world in our image. Americans have no place telling Danes how to live in Denmark.
Communities are essential. Everyone seems to support things like democracy, racial equality and women's liberation. But none of these ideas exist in a vacuum. They arose in and continue to exist in a particular historical context. If, as the scholars incessantly tell us (in hopes of discrediting traditional beliefs) it's all "socially constructed", then if we value our most basic values, we need to protect and preserve the 'social' that evolved and 'constructed' them.
That means preserving a sense of community where people share more in common than what divides them. It means preserving the symbols that members of a community share in common. It means honoring our parents and all those who came before us, as imperfect as they might have been, for leaving our little corner of the world a little better than they found it. We can't just denounce, pull-down and erase history and have any hope of doing any better.
If we are going to practice identity-politics, it needs to be the broadest and most inclusive identity possible, instead of oxymoronically trying to create unity by dividing everyone by race, class and "gender".
We can't build a healthy culture out of alienation and adolescence.
