In a rather bizarre display of the spirit of bipartisanship, he then promptly refused to appear until after the Republicans made their opening statements and insisted on being allowed to subject them to his own 35-minute rambling opening statement, delivered in the manner of a British resident commissioner reading the 39 articles of the Anglican Confederation to a conscript assemblage of Zulus....'The Imperial Mr. Gore', Michael Reagan, Front Page Magazine, 3/23/2007
Finally! Somebody said it, as if we needed reminding. For decades, without skeptical questioning by MSM, we've seen one version of Al Gore after another parading about, instructing people outside of the United States on how they should live. As the late President's son so brilliantly understands it, this is the kind of behavior that marked the era of the British Raj. It's also why the British Raj ended. People got tired of Brits landing with armed force with instructions from Her Majesty's Government.
It is also a fact that the imperial age in Europe was led by a leftwing, "progressivist", liberal crowd whose rationalization for armed occupations of Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia was to save the locals from themselves. This wasn't done, as the US in Iraq, by creating conditions wherein the locals could build their own societies. Political, cultural, and social structures were imposed by the French, the British, the Germans, the Italians and anyone else who had an interest there. They acted this way because leftwing governments took on an attitude of being superior to other people. The broadly expressed racism and cultural triumphalism of France, Germany and Britain especially didn't come from reactionaries, but from progressive elites who led governments in Berlin, Paris, and London.
Freedom doesn't come by imposition. And the future of any society is determined by its members, not by an elite of outsiders. This is a lesson that the left has never learned.
Luther
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