Globally Unraveling Left

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The Globally Unraveling Left
By Bruce Walker (04/11/05)

My last article was on the very real prospect of a Conservative Party victory in the United Kingdom and the return to power of a government committed to getting tough on crime, tightening immigration, lowering taxes and regulations and generally supportive of the United States. While it is easily possible to read more into a Conservative Party victory than it would mean, it is impossible to consider it as anything less than a victory for conservatives around the world.

This would be particularly telling in light of the relatively easy victory that the more conservative government of Australia won last year, much easier than anyone had predicted, and yet another English-speaking democracy moving Right, not Left, in its politics and policies.

Japan, another archipelago nation like the United Kingdom, already has a conservative, pro-American government which has been a stalwart supporter of our war on terror and, after rearmament, which seems inevitable, will be as powerful a counterweight to technologically inferior China and Russia as Japan wishes (or needs) to be.

If China or Russia get in an arms race with Japan, those nations will doubling lose. First, the commitment of resources will slow or stop economic growth - just as the Russian attempt to keep pace with the Reagan buildup put the Soviet economy in reverse - and so prevent either nation from gaining economically on the overwhelming economic strength of America. Second, Japan will be a permanent bulwark - geography allows it no other choice - to aggression or to threats in East Asia.

Quietly and slowly other elections are turning the tide against blase Leftism around the world. Germany, the most powerful nation in Europe, has a Social Democrat Party that has no confidence of the people. Since playing the ‘anti-American card," Schroeder and his Social Democrats have been losing election after election.

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