250 years later and yes, the Americans won the Revolutionary War and the future.
I was very happy to see the positive visit of King Charles and Queen Camilla to Washington. The king and President Trump spoke respectfully of each other and their respective nations. There was a good dose of humor and self-deprecation. Just as an individual needs friends, so too do countries. And while the US has historically had the world reputation of the loner cowboy gunslinger, singular superpower, the country still needs friends and allies throughout the world. The king’s visit, in this, the 250th year of the United States, was made in good taste and with goodwill. The who’s who of guests at the official state dinner was exceptional, from political leaders to several of America’s trillion-dollar corporate titans. It was star power cranked up to eleven.
And while the Trumps and Windsors seemed to enjoy their meeting, the king and queen are to some extent disconnected from the modern UK. Whereas his grandfather would visit sites in London bombed by the Luftwaffe, King Charles lives a life that is unrelated to the free-fall descent of the formerly most powerful country in the world. One has to close his eyes very tightly to imagine England ruling the seas and having colonial interests throughout the world. Today’s Royal Navy has two aircraft carriers that barely function and could not be bothered to help out in the present war in Iran and the blockade of the Straits of Hormuz. Uncontrolled immigration has led to an Islamification of the country, at the expense of the locals. The king, to the best of my knowledge, has never formally commented on the Pakistani grooming gangs that abused tens of thousands (or more) English girls. Jewish institutions stand behind police guard, which was still not enough to stop the murder of a Jew in Manchester and the torching of Jewish-run (service for all) ambulances in London. Brits are arrested for their online comments, and one fighting for England, like Tommy Robinson, is treated more like a criminal than imams who demand that the country become another Sharia state.
While the personal friendship of the king and the president is important and encouraging, it is not clear that on the British side, the mutual respect goes much further than the outer gate of Buckingham Palace. The current Labor government has shut down its North Sea oil interests while buying the same at high prices from Norway. The Brits wanted to deny the US access to key bases and, had it not been for Donald Trump, would have given over the strategically important island of Diego Garcia effectively to the Chinese. Whereas in the past, English inventions and ingenuity were everywhere to be found, you might have a greater likelihood of finding some Egyptian tech in your home than something out of the UK. How is the UK in such deep decline while the US appears poised for a brighter economic, military, and world leadership future?
For those who don’t look at the events surrounding the founding of the United States or read the pamphlets and letters of the key figures from that period, they might miss the truly revolutionary aspects of 1776. Many countries that make revolutions or break away become mini-me versions of what they ostensibly left. Not so the US. And while the king correctly noted the importance of the Magna Carta in US jurisprudence, the key figures in early America made a radical break from the British. The US and England are what they are today because the former declared that our rights come from God and the latter sees itself as the dispenser of rights. For Americans, there can be no legitimate governmental move to abrogate fundamental rights because they come from a Higher Source. The British—and the rest of the declining European continent—give and take rights as they see fit. One cannot claim free speech in England when old codgers are arrested for posting on Facebook that they don’t like seeing so many Palestinian flags in their country. Waving an Israeli flag during a Hamas rally or expressing patriotism with a Flag of St. George will get you a quick word from a constable and a threat of possible arrest. England has lost pride in its history, culture, accomplishments, and religion. If it had even a smidgen of pride in what England was and what she accomplished, she would never let her country be overrun by people who have no right to be there. It would eject illegal aliens wherever possible and demand full fidelity to king and country for those who stay. But it does neither because it sees itself as an outdated culture, a past colonial bully, and the holder of a religion inferior to Islam. The handover of Diego Garcia was to cost the British taxpayers billions of pounds, as there had to be reparations beyond the real estate transfer.
The US, on the other hand, still has a large population of patriots who are proud of the country and its accomplishments. Sure, Americans come off at times as braggarts, but the US has the bragging rights because it usually gets the job done. Smoking a couple of C-130s and a helicopter in Iran as the price for saving a pilot is the stuff of American lore. A British officer admitted that if they were under similar circumstances, they would not have the ability to extract the downed airman and would have turned to the US to do it for them. The American Left would love to be a copy of its European cousins. They want the government to be a permanent ATM, giving out money to all people and causes that they deem fit. The left has no program for regular American citizens or for how to deal with people who aren’t into DEI and preferred pronouns. The left would not know how to deal with Russia, Iran or China, not one of which is self-limited by seventy-four gender identities and battles over who can use which bathroom. The Western left is unserious because it can afford to be: just as a trust fund child can lie in bed all day and do nothing because his parents worked hard to gain generational wealth, lefties can demand that illegals be left in the country and given generous benefits because violent illegal aliens will never get past the police in their neighborhoods. The left is pathetic and has turned to foul language and pseudo-macho talk of making war against Trump and Republicans to paper over their weak political program.
If you want to know what the US would have looked like without a revolution, take a gander at Canada and Australia. Both are gorgeous countries with very nice people. Both have heavily disarmed the public and live for lefty bromides that include failing to develop energy resources in the name of “climate change”. Both keep tabs on their citizens and their online speech. Neither has great military power, even though they are both enormous land masses. When I was in Sydney, I said that I was witnessing the US had it not broken from England. Driving on the wrong side of the street would have been the least of our problems. Australia during COVID-19 was draconian in its treatment of its citizens. Both countries live on the sidelines of world events, and like England, they are filling up with illegal aliens who make life for Jews and other locals uncomfortable. Toronto has experienced its share of attacks on synagogues and Jews, while the Bondi Beach attack was performed by Muslims in the name of the Islamic State. America is heading for a renaissance, while England and its former colonies are heading to become Pakistan.
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