LETTER: Stout commentary a ‘steaming mound of verbosity’
In his Dec. 9 commentary, Gary Stout regales us with another steaming mound of verbosity. He engages in a scurrilous attack on nationalism, handing us this sophistry, “globalism encourages openness and sharing.” He seems to think that “the world favors globalism,” which is another canard. Either Stout is hopelessly misinformed or he is being purposely obtuse.
The European Union hangs precariously in disarray. Much to the chagrin of the elites, England passed Brexit on a vote that was quickly lampooned by elites and their lapdog media. Paris is burning. We are told by the national media that the reason is rising fuel costs. However, crude oil is less than $50 a barrel. France is fed up with Emmanuel Macron and his globalist policies. The rioting has spread to Germany and Brussels. You won’t hear that from CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC or the rest of the alphabet soup of mendacity. Scare tactics of planetary gloom are used to fool the unwise into accepting “green socialism.” Stories of climate disaster have been running in The New York Times since Abe Lincoln was in the White House. A piece published in the Washington Post in 1922 made the claim that “icebergs were melting and disappearing” – pretty much the same nonsense we are browbeaten with today. The Times, Time Magazine and Newsweek all ran stories in the early 1970s that predicted an impending ice age that never materialized.
We are being pressured here at home to accept globalism, and this plot is suddenly in the open after several centuries of obfuscation and denial. Candymaker Robert Welch gave a speech in 1958 that warned of the globalization efforts – a movement that seeks to result in a single world communist government. Globalism is being hailed as solutions to hunger, violence and displacement of populations, all of which can be resolved very easily with freedom, not government on a grander scale.
A country can be boiled down to three things: borders, language, and culture. Erase the borders and the other two things will be destroyed in short order. Don’t hand me the bromide that globalism is the answer when you can’t figure out how to slow the murder rate in Chicago or Detroit. Don’t tell me that globalism will feed the hungry when there are people in Venezuela who are cooking the dog for dinner or people eating bark off trees in China. My father, my father in-law, and my uncle, all of different political opinions, fought in WWII – not for the U.N., but for the preservation of the U.S. Globalism is wicked.
John A. Quayle
North Franklin Township