Washington D.C.
Abraham lincoln.
Franklin roosevelt, the father of America.
Ronald Reagan, Sejong
Don't say that. What does it sound like? At that time, I happened to turn to a question in Zhihu:
-How to evaluate President George W. Bush?
..... When my mind opened, I had this article and follow-up.
If we say George W. Bush, what about the "God of Beauty"?
There are two gods in the history of China, Song Shenzong Zhao Yong, who initiated Wang Anshi's political reform, and Ming Shenzong Zhu Yijun, who is difficult to sum up in one sentence.
Song Shenzong appointed Wang Anshi to reform. From his twenties to thirties, he used his short life to strive to "enrich Qiang Bing" and restore his ancestors' pursuit of a unified empire. ...
The word "rotten" in Song Shenzong's name originated from the ancient emperor Zhuan Xu. According to legend, Zhuan Xu was a promising king and an emperor in the north.
Song Shenzong worked hard all his life, hoping to surpass his ancestors and become the "Northern Emperor", but he failed in the end. ...
Ming Shenzong, this is very complicated ... First of all, Zhang took control of the state affairs and founded Zhongxing, which lasted for a period of time in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Later, Wanli began a wave of incredible actions, and under the premise of not calling the court, but issuing the imperial edict, the famous "Three Major Signs of Wanli" was also legendary.
Zhu Yijun's name is also very interesting. Yi means "ready to fly high"; Jun means great power. ...
In short, religious factions are always ambitious and can't stop. But judging from the results ... it is often more "divine".
This is a "god", which can also be understood as "obsessed" frequently in the current context. ...
I think this is also in line with george walker bush.
Let's look at George W. Bush's name. The name George is so popular. Not to mention the word Walker in the middle, which vividly shows what kind of person George W. Bush is:
Walker has many meanings in English dictionaries, but two of them are very important:
Conservative and responsible.
These two aspects can basically explain the charm of George W. Bush.
This story needs to go further. ...
Speaking of the word "conservatism", it should be exactly the whole trend of "neo-conservatism" before and after George W. Bush took office. In fact, this trend of thought should be said to have sprouted and developed since Bush's father, President Bush, was a good leader under President Reagan.
The so-called neoconservatism has to be viewed from two aspects. In a conservative sense, these people are devout Christians (such as the Methodist Sect that George W. Bush later converted to) and follow the traditional conservative style: stick to American values, be patriotic, behave in private life, do not smoke, drink or perm (abstinence is no joke, and George W. Bush has experienced an important abstinence test); At the same time, there is a kind of "passive resistance", which can only be understood but not expressed. (The so-called "negative boycott" means that you won't actively promote this politically correct view, but you will never tolerate the positive rights protection practices of Democrats who even favor ethnic minorities in their chances of going to college ... You can feel this subtle attitude. )
Conservatism in the traditional sense is actually more like Monroe doctrine: we don't care about things outside the United States or the American continent.
The Pacific Ocean and even the Atlantic Ocean can be submerged, because God has arranged for them to be submerged. ...
I'm afraid God has a new plan.
Neo-conservatism is not satisfied with the old conservatism of Reagan era. If the Reagan administration's armed intervention in Grenada is only an "experimental action" of neoconservatism, then the unexpected success of the Soviet containment strategy (don't ask why it was an accident, ask the best man with the Mediterranean on his head) simply pushed neoconservatism (let's call it "new treasure") to a climax ... This climax reached a complete climax with the disintegration of the Soviet Union during the Bush administration. ...
Shock, drunkenness, madness ...
In addition to describing the Japanese Iwakura Tomomi delegation of 187 1, it can also fully fit the "new insurance" of the United States in the early 1990s.
"Even the mighty behemoth, the Soviet Union, can disintegrate, so why can't our American values, to be exact, American values with neoconservative characteristics, be filled with red flags all over the world?"
This is the global strategy recognized by the new American insurance company, and that kind of red is the red of the red neck.
(Of course, the red color changed a little when I met the king. This is another story ...)
The new insurance company wants to "do something", but there will inevitably be some twists and turns on the road to doing things.
This turning point occurred in 1992.
The story is about 1992, which is also an election year in the United States. The situation of the Democratic Party at that time was that basically rational people had turned their attention to 1996. The reason is that it is even as difficult to challenge President Bush at 1992 as it was to challenge franklin roosevelt in the 1940s. The reason is quite simple
-strong can be called "the holy father" President franklin roosevelt didn't do two things:
1-disintegration of the Soviet Union and drastic changes in Eastern Europe
2-Winning the first modern war in human history-the first Gulf War, which was not led by the army.
First of all, you can say that President Bush is standing on the shoulders of giants (after all, this matter has to be counted from Truman's time); But the second thing is entirely Bush's own achievement. Unlike Dakang Li:
It's not a person, it's a person.
(Photo of President Bush's condolences to American soldiers on the Gulf front)
How could such an outstanding white male leader with extraordinary leadership (very much in line with the appetite of mainstream American voters at that time), an American president who made history, and a talented person (NSS) who only wrote two articles in the four-year national security strategy ... (because he wrote about the goals of the president's national security strategy ...) not be re-elected?
As a political party that is better at picking soft persimmons than communist party, the Democratic Party has indicated that it is not interested in 1992. ...
Paradoxically, at this time, two people after 40 years old are still working hard in their forties.
Bill Clinton and Albert Gore. They are only two years apart (1946 and 1948), both from the south (Arkansas and Tennessee). Both of them are young Democratic Party cadres at the governor level, and both of them are regarded as abandoned children by Democratic Party bosses. ...
Both of them witnessed the milestone in American election history by creating history:
After Clinton, there can be George W. Bush, but there will never be George W. Bush again. ...
It should be noted that Clinton and George W. Bush are the same age and were both born in 1946.
In this election, Clinton shouted "it's the economy, idiot!" " ) slogan, successfully touched the forgotten American people under the neo-conservative global strategy, but also fooled the old Bush and * * * and the party. Two post-40s in the United States, in the 1990s, were cattle people who broke into exquisite porcelain shops.
That China shop is the traditional political hall in Washington.
During the Clinton period, the United States greatly adjusted its economic policy since Reagan, the federal deficit was greatly reduced, the US monetary policy received much attention, inflation was controlled, and a more positive and confident approach was adopted in its trade policy, which also greatly increased the global influence of American enterprises in the following eight years ... In this sense, Clinton's eight years were very exciting economically, and they were also eight years in which the American people had a sense of gain.
By the way, this can also explain two things: why Clinton was not impeached successfully and why Clinton won more support than President Reagan when he left office-66%.
Clinton's new style is a cooling of neoconservatism. During the Clinton period, the global intervention of the United States returned relatively, and there was no more radical way to continue the expectation of neoconservatism. Generally speaking, the global strategy of neoconservatism has obviously slowed down, which has constituted an early warning of hegemonic cooling from today. ...
But it was obviously from God's perspective.
Clinton's diplomacy and global strategy can't adjust Reagan's approach. More precisely, he and his government have no way or will to get rid of the political inertia since the Reagan era. Neo-conservatism is still the mainstream thought in American politics, and it is also a "prominent school" in American society and even in education (Fukuyama's The End of History is a typical example), which laid the foundation for the Bush era. ...
And what kind of coincidence made George W. Bush a natural choice for "conservatives"? (selected? People)
(To be continued)