However- we do not have medieval buildings, history that spans to rome like the europeans have. "Old" in America is "Early Modern" to the Continent. This divide is not so easily surmounted by declaring americans identify as one with Belgians, Germans, the Dutch- etc.
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Countersignaling the Founders is not a feasible strategy, nor valuable imo. There's nothing similar or analogous to this on the continent- as the Swedes have been in Sweden for centuries- they do not have the same level of artifice that America has on the level of Identity.
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Even if you demystify the Constitution as "a piece of magic paper"- you've only demystified it for yourself. I do not expect that you will succeed in demystifying it for American Conservatives of any substantial population.
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This artifice is your inheritance. There's an irony to rejecting it under the auspices of "Tradition." Whatever Tradition it may be, it certainly is not that almost oxymoronic idea that is: "American Tradition."
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For instance: let's talk about guns. This is a very unique feature of America- one cannot fathom a continental power of the early modern period, when the last vestiges of the ancien regime were being toppled by folk uprisings, to enshrine the right to bear arms in the law.
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A Proverb: God made man, Smith & Wesson made them equal. This sentiment- this is American Tradition. Do you want to protect it? Or do you want to destroy it? If you want to destroy it, you might succeed, but I doubt you'll outnumber the other people who want to if it happens.
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If politics is based in the friend enemy distinction: are normie american conservatives your friends, or are they your enemies? If they are your enemies, how many friends do you really have?
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If American Tradition is to survive, it must be with a coalition of libertarians, right liberals, conservatives, & working class populists against the Left on all fronts. The only other option is to let American Tradition be destroyed- in order to refound something new/better.
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Normie American conservatives support the newer American tradition, of a globe spanning financial and military empire. The blood-stained rewards of that result in the narcissists you refer to as “the left”, and are near and dear to these conservatives.
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America has always been conquering. When weren't we?
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True, but there's a countercurrent of isolationist thought that can be traced back to Washington's Farewell Address. It is not the mainline but could make use of it without countersignaling "America"
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