EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The US elections will be a contest not just between political figures and rival parties but between opposing worldviews. Biden’s intention to “Europeanize” American democracy would leave the international system bereft of the democracy that saved humanity multiple times from the calamities wreaked upon it by European utopian thought.
President Donald Trump’s declaration in his Mount Rushmore speech of his intention to defend the traditional values of the United States, and Joe Biden’s declaration (backed by Bernie Sanders) of his intention to bring about a transformation of the United States, indicate that the 2020 elections will not be, as in the past, a democratic contest between two personalities and parties but a fateful contest between cultures: the Hebrew-biblical cultural of freedom from which the Anglo-Saxon democracies derived their values versus the Hellenistic culture of freedom from which the European democracies derived theirs.
There is a fundamental difference between the
values of the two ancient cultures that formed the crucible of the
modern West. The values of the Hebrew-biblical culture were derived from
universal logic, the laws of which constitute
an absolute and eternal truth and among which a harmony and coherence
exists that is designed to foster a similar harmony (social justice)
among human beings. The values of the Hellenistic culture, by contrast,
were derived from human logic, which asserts
that humanity is the standard that determines good and evil, there is no
external standard for the moral judgment of human acts, and certain
ideas exist that constitute an absolute truth that only elite
individuals can discover and impose, by means of “keepers,” on a society
that is “chained in a cave.”..........To Read More.....
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