Democrats Riot in France

November 15 2005
Counterbias.com
by Ted Baiamonte
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One of the most tiring things about being an American Republican is listening to American Democrats talk about what a superior country France is. When you ask Democrats about where their ideas have been tried or what they would like America to look like, they point to France more than any other country. American Democrats like the more generous social welfare programs, the long vacations, effeminate French men, the emphasis on diplomacy rather than war, the shorter less competitive work week, and the gentle wine and cheese culture.

But, what is the truth about France that delusional Democrats don't see? Firstly, France barely qualifies as a country. The barbarian Americans had to save them in World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and now the War on Terror. They are a country only because America has been kind enough to prop them up as such.

But they do have that wonderful lifestyle, don't they? Well, not really, unless you don't mind an income 37% less than the one you have in America. Whoops, there goes one of your cars and your house! Yes, they do really have 254 kinds of cheese, but the French can't afford to do much on their incomes -- so sitting around all day with cheap wine and cheese became the boring but thoroughly sophisticated (in theory anyway) French life style.

Two years ago, during a record setting heat wave, 15,000 elderly French died in nursing homes because they had no air conditioning. In the US, total deaths in such a heat wave would have been near zero because we can afford air conditioning in our nursing homes, most of which are financed by the government -- which supposedly is not very generous, at least by French standards.

But if their income is low, at least there must be low unemployment -- right? Wrong! Unemployment among people of native origin is 9.2%. Among those of foreign origin, the figure is 14% - even after adjusting for education. In the U.S., unemployment is only 4.9% and is not adjusted for educational qualifications. There would be a revolution if unemployment in the United States ever hit 10%.

But at least the French are a kinder and gentler people than we are, right? Well, when you notice that the rates of admitted anti-Semitism in France are the highest in the world, you have to wonder. And, if you ask yourself, "where were the children of the 15,000 elderly who died during that fateful summer?", the answer you get is, "they were on their four-week summer vacations being very sophisticated with their wine and 254 kinds of cheese."

And then of course there've been multiple nights of rioting in 274 French cities (now spreading to Belgium and Germany) that have engulfed all of France. During this time, the French have expressed their inharmonious feelings toward each other once again. It reminds one of World War II during which half the French sided with the Nazis feeling that France wasn't so special after all. Oddly, to this day when the French re-enact the liberation of Paris from the Nazis they pretend, in the ultimate manifestation of their lingering Napoleonic complex, that they liberated Paris when in fact it was United States.

After the war, to show their contempt for our social welfare anti-Nazi program, France did not support the United States or NATO at all. They obstructed most of our foreign policy initiatives which were designed to spread freedom, capitalism, and Democracy. They honestly believed they were playing an independent role in the Cold War that offered the world a viable third way. Now, they have bent over backwards to oppose us, once again, in the war on Muslim terror, and their Muslim population is showing its appreciation by rioting in 274 cities.

But at least one thing is genuinely world-class about the French: self delusion. Despite how embarrassing the last century turned out for them, they are still (at least prior to the current riots) cocksure about their superiority. Here is what President Mitterrand said about American riots to the Washington Post in 1992: he blamed the riots on the "conservative society" that Presidents Reagan and Bush had created, and said France is different because "it is the country where the level of social protection is the highest in the world." Well, oh my golly gee, I wonder what he would think now?

So what are the lessons here? First, the old world French have little to contribute to civilization. Second, our Democrats should grow up and not become like the French by imagining that inept federal social welfare can nourish the human soul in any meaningful way. And third, appeasement of Nazi or Muslim terrorists is not a legitimate peace program. Generous social welfare programs create a generous dependency and engender a growing entitlement mentality rather than appreciation and growth from the recipient. The United States successfully ushered in wave after wave of immigrants and successfully integrated them with the Republican attitude which maintained that each individual had to create his own welfare and circumstances -- rather than imagine it could be stolen from other people through government welfare (the Democratic way).

We had riots, yes, but only when American Blacks began to thoroughly identify with the Democrats, who successfully taught them that generous social welfare would be forthcoming as soon as they voted for them. France is stumbling with their first wave of modern immigrants because, from Marx forward, they have never had the Republican mentality (which holds that liberty is granted to each individual to creatively define and enrich himself and society through private competitive enterprise).

To this day, 30% of the French work for the government, where they can contribute nothing. Yet in the backward French world, they are considered honored jobs for the elite who appease the Nazis, surrender to them, defy American liberty, support the Middle East Intifada, and then encourage French Muslim rioters to seek meaningful lives through them. We all must pray that that American Democrats and their French brethren wake up from their hallucinogenic stupor before it is too late.
 

Ted Baiamonte is author of "Understanding the Difference Between Democrats and Republicans". His blog is The Dumb Democrat, and he can be reached at bje1000@aol.com.