The United States was formed as an antidote to Britain’s maladies.  It was the greatest of experiments in self-government, and the preponderance of evidence confirms its success.

The leftists who have taken over the Democratic Party say the experiment is over and that it has failed.  This argument makes sense if and only if its proponents know no history, have been taught the wrong history, or deliberately ignore history to acquire power. 

Our public school system, which exists to ensure, at least, the continuation of the “state,” has been failing since the boomer-hippies took over the education establishment.  Barack Obama is the first presidential candidate to have come through the post-hippie, revisionist education system that teaches history from the point of view that the great American experiment has failed and that the mere existence of the United States has had a net negative effect on the world, as historian Howard Zinn, author of the popular university textbook, A People’s History of the United States, has stated with astounding forthrightness.

Obama’s strategy is to try to convince the American people that every inconvenience in their lives is more evidence that our “system” is "broken," and that if we would just give him the power, we’d never be inconvenienced again.  How?  Because he would work with his big-government leftist associates in Congress to grow an army of government bureaucrats big enough to make sure everything is regulated into a Huxlian-Orwellian sameness.  Prices would not go up or down, they would stay the same.  There would be regulations to keep the sea level steady and to keep the rain away from everyone but government-approved farmers.  That should take care of everything.

The free market works, but not without some ups and downs.  Americans are used to ups and downs, and we tolerate the downs for the benefits of the ups.  There are too many variables in a market for government to regulate them all, and that’s why government intervention with market mechanisms ends up causing more trouble than it's intended to avoid.  This is why the so-called financial crisis Congress is trying to relieve today is not, as the Democrats and their superficial stooges in the mainstream press would have the people believe, a failure of markets.  The problems arise from failure of government intervention in markets.  Congress cannot repeal the laws of economics any more than it can repeal the laws of physics.

The great American experiment is still going strong and all evidence indicates that it is succeeding.  The United States is not merely different from other countries; it is better than other countries.  Her individual citizens are not necessarily “better,” but her cultural and governmental systems are better, because they allow people to be as productive as they want to be and rise to their greatest potential.  Assertions of American exceptionalism are confirmed by long lines of people trying to become Americans.  No other country has so many immigrants risking their lives to come here to make better lives for themselves.

To call America the last best hope is not hyperbole. American leftists believe that if other countries are embracing socialized medicine, for example, then it must be a good thing.   Consider this: socialized medicine “works” in other countries because the United States’ system is always there as a standby for people who need superior medical care in a hurry.  But if the United States embraces the Canadian or European systems, our medical services will be rationed by government just as they are in Canada, Europe, and Cuba, and people will no longer have a better alternative than to sit tight for months, hoping they don’t die waiting for treatment.  If people really thought they would get better medical care in countries with socialized medicine, then they would go to those countries to get it.

Extrapolating the health care situation to a grander scale is not that much of a stretch:  The United States of America is what it is because it was founded on certain principles that history has shown repeatedly make it work better than other nations.  Some might say America is different, but not better.  If that were the case, as I said above, then people wouldn’t be dying to get in here.  We live here instead of in Europe because we think this is a better place.  If all countries and cultures were the same, then people wouldn’t care where they lived.  But people do care.  If a substantial number of Americans want to live like the Europeans, then they should move to Europe.  This country became independent from Europe for good reasons, and the experiment has shown that those reasons cause America to ascend steadily while Europe declines. 

The bottom line is this:  If Obama and his team of leftist handlers win the White House, there will be no need for liberal Americans to move to Europe or Canada or Cuba or anywhere else the people don’t want to govern themselves.  America is the world’s safety net.  If we do not conserve the founding principles that underpin her and have made her the greatest country on earth, then, for those of us who embrace those principles, there will be no place else to go.