Western values are ideals we would hope to practice, not just preach. There is a gap between the ideals and reality, and we all KNOW it.
One example is how we treat our poor. "Welfare" is an ugly word to Tweety supporters. "Medicaid is welfare." So? Sometimes people need help.
A lot of conservatives believe poor people are lazy, worthless people. Some conservatives believe welfare is stealing. lol Not from the rich tho!
The facts and truth tell us ALL that freedom is not for everyone in America as we put more people in jail than all other countries combined.
The ideal of equality is inconsistent, as it applies more for "White Privilege" than people of color. White Privilege is proven every day as traffic stops of whites vs blacks end up differently.
Our democracy is weakened by a President who undermines the judiciary AND justice department, creates fake news to enhance distrust of the nation's media and press, isolates America in a world dependent on connectivity, and does not protect our country from Russian incursions into our elections, in fact Tweety embraces Russia government and morals. American capitalism is rigged by tax rules and statutes that are specifically, intentionally designed to help the rich, PERIOD.
So what did Tweety say about our "way of life" being under attack?
"The Racial and Religious Paranoia of Trump's Warsaw Speech"
When the president says being Western is the essence of America’s identity, he’s in part defining America in opposition to some of its own people.
U.S. President Donald Trump gives a public speech at Krasinski Square in Warsaw. Reuters / Carlos Barria, Jul 6, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/07/trump-speech-poland/532866/
"In his speech in Poland on Thursday, Donald Trump referred 10 times to “the West” and five times to “our civilization.” His white nationalist supporters will understand exactly what he means. It’s important that other Americans do, too.
The West is not a geographic term. Poland is further east than Morocco. France is further east than Haiti. Australia is further east than Egypt. Yet Poland, France, and Australia are all considered part of “The West.” Morocco, Haiti, and Egypt are not.
The West is not an ideological or economic term either. India is the world’s largest democracy. Japan is among its most economically advanced nations. No one considers them part of the West.
The West is a racial and religious term. To be considered Western, a country must be largely Christian (preferably Protestant or Catholic) and largely white. Where there is ambiguity about a country’s “Westernness,” it’s because there is ambiguity about, or tension between, these two characteristics. Is Latin America Western? Maybe. Most of its people are Christian, but by U.S. standards, they’re not clearly white. Are Albania and Bosnia Western? Maybe. By American standards, their people are white. But they are also mostly Muslim."
So Tweety wants to have a war with the entire freaking world as he spouts ridiculous stories of fear, HIS FEAR.
The "West" has been at war with many countries for a long, long, long time and so FEAR must be the Western value Tweety speaks of. Right? No surprise Bannon and Miller likely wrote Tweety's speech, of which I am certain Tweety had no idea of the implications.
"Steve Bannon, who along with Stephen Miller has shaped much of Trump’s civilizational thinking, has been explicit about this. In a 2014 speech, he celebrated “the long history of the Judeo-Christian West struggle against Islam” and “our forefathers” who “bequeathed to use the great institution that is the church of the West.”
Bannon and Miller at "bat shit crazy." That makes Tweety bat shit crazy.
In 2001 "Bush never referred to “the West.” He did tell Poles that “We share a civilization.”"
"In 2003, Bush returned, and in his main speech didn’t use the terms “West” or “civilization” at all."
More.
"When Bush spoke in Poland, America’s leaders still mostly discussed globalization as a process by which America improved the rest of the world. Trump generally discusses globalization—the movement of both goods and people—as a process by which the rest of the world cheats, weakens, and threatens America. In his two speeches in Poland combined, Bush used variations of the word “defend” five times. Trump used them 21 times in a single speech."
Tweety threatens the world MUCH MORE than the world threatens American or Americans.
"The most shocking sentence in Trump’s speech—perhaps the most shocking sentence in any presidential speech delivered on foreign soil in my lifetime—was his claim that “The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” On its face, that’s absurd. Jihadist terrorists can kill people in the West, but unlike Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, they cannot topple even the weakest European government. Jihadists control no great armies. Their ideologies have limited appeal even among the Muslims they target with their propaganda. ISIS has all but lost Mosul and could lose Raqqa later this year.
Trump’s sentence only makes sense as a statement of racial and religious paranoia. The “south” and “east” only threaten the West’s “survival” if you see non-white, non-Christian immigrants as invaders. They only threaten the West’s “survival” if by “West” you mean white, Christian hegemony. A direct line connects Trump’s assault on Barack Obama’s citizenship to his speech in Poland. In Trump and Bannon’s view, America is at its core Western: meaning white and Christian (or at least Judeo-Christian). The implication is that anyone in the United States who is not white and Christian may not truly be American but rather than an imposter and a threat."
This is sick, ugly material, and fundamentally STUPID. OK, America, follow this demented, idiotic, immature, arrogant, foolish Tweety and we end up 100% on the wrong side of every other country, European and non-European, on the planet Earth.
Disrupting an investigation to Russia connections by Tweety? Obviously Tweety has something to hide. Why ask if Tweety can he pardon himself?
