There is no uncertainty that the origin of American “democratic imperialism” is the belief of utmost Anglo-Saxon Protestant sects – so utmost that their followers had to flee from England Stuarts and Anglicanism to America – in that they are “New Israel”, a group of God's chosen ones destined to conquer the fresh Kanaan (meaning America) and make a “City on the Hill”, inhabited by perfect and pure Puritans, being a “light of hope” for the world.
However, the concreteization of this thought evolved. At first, the inhabitants of this town were to be isolated from the corrupt, monarchic, and “poganic” (which had both Catholicism and the more average trends of Protestantism as well as Anglo-Catholicism) of the Old World. As long as America was already independent, it was inactive comparatively weak (since in the war with Britain in 1812 almost this independency had not lost), this isolationism, in the secularized version of the "free republic", was a dogma of abroad policy.
The sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, warned not to go abroad, "in search of monsters to be destroyed." Alists according to his yet-developed state secretary (but known under the name of the then president) of the "Monroe Doctrine", the United States recognized as its sphere of influence the American continent, besides opposing any possible intentions of the monarchy restaurant in this world, in exchange for which they promised not to interfere in European affairs, which could be considered to have given up Europe of the "Netherlands" due to the fact that they were not yet able to intervene.
The transition to democratic missionaryism, or “happy” the full planet with American-like democracy, took place only in the 20th century under the doctrinal regulation of the semi-head (as Marian Zdechowski called it) of Woodrow Wilson, and already “on steroids” functioned at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, regardless of whether the Democrats or Republicans ruled. Since then, “the search for monsters to be destroyed” and “the creative destruction” as a “historical mission” of the United States is simply a constant practice of global American politics, which besides requires – as the author of this doctrine, Michael A. Ledeen, to throw all fewer years against a wall of any shitty state to make the planet know who is in charge.
Prof. Jacek Bartyzel
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