Obama reelected! USA votes for death spiral!

Janet Daly (Telegraph) argue that  Europe got the American president it wanted – the one who would present no threat to its own delusions.

The United States is now officially one of us: an Old World country complete with class hatred, ethnic Balkanisation, bourgeois guilt and a paternalist ruling elite.

And it is locked into the same death spiral of high public spending
 and self-defeating wealth redistribution as we (Greece/Sprain/Portugal/Italy, now France) are.

Welcome to the future, and the beginning of what may turn out to be the terminal decline of the West.

The saddest development is the one that is most counter-intuitive. Mr Obama – who famously ran in 2008 as the post-racial candidate – has polarised the nation racially in a way that it has not been for half a century, reversing what had been the progressive trend toward real social integration and colour blindness in American political life. Ninety-three per cent of black voters – 93 per cent – voted for Obama in this election, as did 71 per cent of Latino voters and 73 per cent of Asian ones.

What do those figues mean for the future of  America's internal peace?

 The United States has now acquired an electorally powerful liberal bourgeoisie who are convinced, as their European counterparts have been for several generations, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that public spending is inherently virtuous, that poverty can be cured by penalising wealth creation, and that government intervention can engineer social “fairness”.

But just when some of Europe’s political class has begun to appreciate the dangers of this philosophy – that taken to its logical conclusion, it leads to economic stagnation and social division – America seems to have decided that it is the quintessence of enlightened sophistication. Bless

Here in the UK - this is precisely the model – the arch manipulator, Gordon Brown's  vision of government as omnipotent benefactor and purveyor of “social justice” – from which we in Britain are attempting to escape, and in which the EU (Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and now France) is still hopelessly trapped in a death spiral.