Reality with Bruce de Torres 30 Martin Sieff

Reality with Bruce de Torres 30 Martin Sieff

Martin Sieff is a senior fellow at the American University in Moscow (AUM) and was Adjunct Professor of Transnational Threats at Bay Atlantic University; Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Times; Managing Editor, International Affairs, for United Press International, and UPI's chief news analyst for 10 years.

Highlights of our conversation:

“Lincoln is the true architect of industrial America,” which became the wonder of the world for more than a century. During FDR’s New Deal, the enormous productive power of industry and its ability to create wealth was harnessed to the public good. Industrialization must be combined with a policy of social responsibility.

Lincoln was a figure of enormous brilliance, dignity, intelligence and subtlety. He grew up with very little schooling. But he had the King James Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. “You could argue all of Western Civilization was based on them.” And he read them obsessively.

He became Illinois’ most successful railroad attorney. Carl Sandburg created the myth of Lincoln as a sensitive, Christ-like figure, a disservice to both. They didn’t merely preach that we should be nice to each other. Each was strong and determined and brave as they confronted dangerous and entrenched interests.

(Bruce urges people to read Sandburg’s six volumes for a rich picture of the times, lush, beautiful prose, and a huge variety of stories about Lincoln.)

Lincoln loved the American experiment, which gave ordinary people a chance to express their talents and rise in the world as no other civilization in history had.

There is a school of thought that crucifies Lincoln for violating the Constitution to fight and win the Civil War. That is a disservice to his greatness, especially his economics, his implementation of Alexander Hamilton’s “American System, by which the federal government encouraged manufacturing in order to create national wealth and secure national sovereignty in opposition to the British system of exploiting the world with colonialism, with imperial domination, preventing other countries from industrializing while taking their natural resources and calling their system “free trade.”

Tariffs protect and encourage a nation’s manufacturing, the consumption of its goods, and its wealth creation.

We’ve had the triumph of the British system in America for the last 40 years.

(See the RisingTideFoundation.net, the works of Anton Chaitkin, and Nancy Spannaus’s AmericanSystemNow.com and her books, HAMILTON VERSUS WALL STREET: The Cor Principles of the American System of Economics and DEFEATING SLAVERY: How Hamilton’s American System Showed the Way.)

Martin has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for International Reporting. He has written nine books, most notably CYCLES OF CHANGE, a political history of the United States from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. His seminars on American and World History can be seen on YouTube, on the channel: Rising Tide Foundation.

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