LaRouche: State of the Union Address, 2003

- The Imitation of the American Exception -
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- The Imitation of the American Exception -

As a result of that, of our founding of our republic; as a result of our defeat of the cause of slavery, even when the Spanish monarchy of the late 19th Century and the British, and others, attempted to keep us in the system of slavery; our victory with Abraham Lincoln; the rapid development of our republic once we were freed of slavery, such that we were the leading economic nation of the world, as a national power, in 1876 when the first Centennial Celebration was held in Philadelphia; as a result of that, throughout the world--in France, in Germany, in Russia, later in China, Japan in particular--the American model, the American System of Political Economy, was adopted as the only system worth having. It was not adopted in full.

Bismarck, in 1877, adopted the policies of Friedrich List, his version of the American System, as policy, after seeing the results in the 1876 Centennial Exposition in the United States.

One of the greatest scientists of the world, Mendeleyev, attended the conference at the Centennial in Philadelphia, and came back to Russia and convinced the Tsar--Tsar Alexander II, who was a friend of the United States--to adopt the industrialization policy of the United States, particularly our trans-continental railway system. And he started it.

Japan was created as a modern state, by the influence of the leading economist of the world at that time, who sent his representative to educate the Japanese on how to create an industrial economy. China, modern China. Sun Yat-sen was a protege of the United States, who organized the basis for modern China.

This was the influence of the United States. What we did under Roosevelt, up until 1944 at least, up until that terrible Democratic Convention of the Summer of 1944, made us loved. What we did for Europe, in what was called the Marshall Plan, which was actually the bringing of the policies of Franklin Roosevelt into Europe for the reconstruction of a war-torn, ruined Europe. caused us to be respected and loved.

So the United States, despite the fact that it's come on hard times, and bad public relations in the present period--the United States, I can tell you, has a reservoir of good will from around the world, from {those who remember what we were}, who remember what we used to stand for when we were the enemy of imperialism, the opponent of colonialism, the opponent of slavery, and the opponent of archaic systems of government--and the opponent of central banking systems; which I'll come to.

That power exists today. The influence that I have in the world at large, is because it's recognized in leading circles in many parts of the world, that I represent {that} United States; that United States which has great credit throughout this planet; a great credit to which most nations would respond happily, were I sitting in the White House right today. Were I in the White House today, this country would suddenly be overrun by friends. Some of the friends who tend to hate us right now.

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