usa starts on the long road to decline

today united states of america elected the path of stagnation and decline, as i expected in my last post. it also gave up its leadership in the battle of ideas.

(i for one am not celebrating. people who think we should celebrate just because america at long last outgrew its racial prejudices, are only expressing a more subtle form of racial prejudice without even realizing it . martin luther king jr. dreamed of a society that is blind to skin color . people who use word "historic" today do so because of skin color. obama the phony should be evaluated and judged on his character and policies.)

usa freely and democratically chose stagnation and decline,

• by electing a leftist who believes in increasing the role of government both in economic and social lives of its citizens,
• by electing a person who is willing to admit moral defeat (even as usa is well on its way to military and political victory) in its wars and by that, and other ways is willing to give up its so called leadership of the free world,
• and by electing a person lacking in personal leadership qualities and has consistently and deliberately chosen the path of least resistance in his political decisions.

america has chosen the same path that europe selected after world wars. but unlike europe it was not forced on america and imo is way too premature. anyway america will suffer the same fate; slow relative decline (baring occasional emergence of a thacher or a reagan who may stop it temporarily).

can decline be stopped?
permanent change to this course of decline is unlikely unless americans change their minds massively in the next four years and elect an ideologically pure conservative. in reality however a pure ideological conservative nominated (a possibility if republicans really try ) is likely to go down in a massive defeat. anyone else elected, even from republican party, will only tread in obama's footsteps. after four to eight years of leftist administrations it wont be possible to change course even through a pure conservative, he or she will only be able halt it temporarily.

to be clear, this is not all obama's fault; he is just the active and fitting symbol of americans' desire to give up ... sorry "for change" .
its their choice and they will deserve what they will get.

short term results
in addition to long term implications, i have no doubt that results of obama election will be soon evident in the short term as well. world and americans will not like them.

in this regard ironically world is likely to see an obama acting just like bush on foreign policy at first, to the surprise of world at large ( after all non americans are even more pro-obama than americans ). obama will do that mainly to prove (dishonestly ) his critics wrong ( who say the same things about him, i said above). but since he will be acting without conviction he will ultimately fail. ideal test for him ( and for my prediction here) will be his reaction to iran's attempt at a nuclear bomb.

the real loss to world
for the rest of the world, the greatest loss today is the loss of idealogical leadership of america

no longer can anyone look to contemporary america as an example of a successful free society that value and celebrate individual freedoms. it is now just another half baked socialist state. and like most third world countries ( and unlike most of europe) up to its neck in debt and getting more so. shame.

principles of individual freedoms and capitalism will have to stand on their own merits. i of course think that they can and will prevail. but ... it is alway good to have an example (even an admittedly imperfect one as america was) .

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ps
those ngo types (peacenik or otherwise) who receive american money to prescribe solutions ( economic and political ) to sri lanka and other countries should realize the hypocrisy and untenability of their situation.
advocacy of all solutions are welcome in democracy. and when they are solutions that are based on market forces and individual freedom i personally support them. but such advocates should not be receiving payments from a country that no longer believes in them, has given up implementing them, and cannot give moral support for them.

american democracy sending america down the toilet?

it is illuminating experience to observe the american election process.

there is election fraud in large scale even before the election; people are allowed register park benches as addresses. mickey mouse, dead gold fish, and 7 year olds, among others, can register to vote. same person can register multiple times. election officials are not allowed to use available resources like databases of voters to verify questionable registrations. voting machines as usual don't work. all the votes are not counted, etc etc.

(sri lankan electoral process is not perfect and is low tech, but they get the processes and procedures right, way better than americans. for instance, i for one has trouble changing my voting registration from my former residence to current one because of the procedures involving letters from grama niladari etc. that has to be followed. sri lanka also has some common sense procedures like ink, seals, numbering, etc to reduce fraud and increase efficacy of counting. here to commit fraud you have to expend huge (relatively speaking) amount of money and sweat. in america organizations like acorn do that with part time workers paid at an hourly rate.)


then we have biased media. america's media (baring one cable channel(fox news) and few news papers (wall street journal etc)) are usually biased towards "liberals" ( word means leftists in american politics). this year they go beyond that, they are so completely in the tank for barack the phony that they are in serious danger of drowning ( literally. all the liberal newspapars and networks are losing readers and audience )
few examples only -

• they go after so called "joe the plumber" using illegally obtained private data just because the fellow asked a question that elicited a revealing answer from obama who showed up at his front yard. ( they of course failed ask the question themselves )
• they look the other way when a lone anchor women in a local tv station ask tough questions from biden and then get banned by obama for her and station's efforts.
  
• they publish idiotic smears (some sexist and down right disgusting) against palin and her family and send legions of shit sniffers to alaska, but actively suppress existing evidence (like video of obama with kalidi) that can hurt obama and do not examine his radical record and associations with terrorists.
• they ask school friends (found through facebook) of mccain's adopted teenage daughter for dirt on cindy mccain but ignore the very real cocaine use (a crime) of obama.
• etc etc.

all this in addition to unbalanced coverage of real issues ("retribution of wealth" is not socialist!?) or electoral process ( ignore polls that show race is tighter, highlight polls that show it to be a landslide for obama)

i am not talking about some far left website or papers, (or even lunatics at cable channel msnbc), all of the above were done by such media outlets as, new york times, washington post, los angles times, abc, nbc, cbs, cnn, etc. etc. rupavahini and daily news can now compare themselves to these without blushing in the least.


of course, all this, while having an effect, will not be responsible for the election result, anymore than in any other country where election fraud take place and where media is biased.

as i have said before, election results can only be controlled in places where one party has means to completely, or almost completely, intimidate voters, and has complete control over media and electoral machinery. it is only in authoritarian criminal states like ussr, cuba, north korea, nazi germany, and regions like terrorist ltte controlled areas in sri lanka that those conditions prevail.

in all other places, voters themselves are responsible for the results (even if the result is not to their liking), either by voting for that result ( with, or without, getting informed adequately to make he decision) or by neglect (by not voting, registering, or not being vigilant).

so ultimately if america elects a closet socialist,

• who has done nothing to show he has the character or experience necessary for the job,
• whose foreign policy is nothing but an immature, premature, and irresponsible, surrender of america's (irritating but necessary for rest of the world that value democracy and capitalism) leadership of the world,
• and whose economic policies (if carried out) will only help america's ( and world's) economy further down the hole it is already in,

it is american public that will be responsible.
they will get what they deserve. (unfortunately so will the world.)

do americans in a panic mood about economy want to give up its leadership of the world and ideas? and think they can protect themselves with trade protectionism, socialism, continuous apologizing, and defeatism? and want to follow europe to stagnation and slow relative decline? that is what they will do by a vote to obama.

or do they want to stand tall, win, and lead?

they should look at what happened to other former world powers when they just gave up. it will take time for effects to materialize but it will not be pretty for americans.

hopefully obama will not get elected, but that is unlikely according to predictions markets; they give 85%+ chance for an obama win
more likely american public will flush their own country down the toilet on november 4th 2008.

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ps
this american election once again proves the hypocrisy of people who take american money to accuse and denigrate other nations' elections and democracies .

rotten peacenik sleazebags that work for partly american funded sri lankan ngos like center for policy alternatives (cpa), free media movement(fmm), inform, etc are in the habit of making allegations (most of them completely unfounded and fabricated by terrorists' spin office) against sri lankan elections if their terrorist tiger/pussy licking candidates is no elected or is not likely to be elected. (note to idiots - this is not to say sl elections are perfect. see above. criticize sl democracy all you want, but do not take american, or any other foreign, donor money for the purpose).

in reality main purpose of such criminal ngos, as usual, is to give as much propaganda ammunition as possible to murderous terrorists to justify their crimes. in order to do that and to encourage even more excretions from donors to their mouths they create specialized ngos like center for monitoring election violence(cmev).

we should always expose their hypocrisy, as well as their propaganda on behalf of the terrorists
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pss
thanks for all the emails.
i have also read the emails and comments asking me to write about sri lanka, tamil nadu etc.
will do very soon. almost did so last week. but was busy elsewhere.
even this one was long time in making. hope to add the relevant links for this post, but you can do a search and find them for now if in a hurry.