Posted on 11/06/2024 2:05:59 PM PST by Rummyfan
For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming. Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying.
1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.
2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.
3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same.
4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don't resent success, they celebrate it.
5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border.
(Excerpt) Read more at konstantinkisin.com ...
Reasons #6 thru #10:
6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country’s imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.
7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left’s reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.
8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump’s rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.
9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.
10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.
I saw it coming
It had to be the Rapture. They vanished.
All true of those who voted for Trump. Not true of the abjectly dependant, gamers of the system, and the irredeemably brainwashed.
1. Americans love their country...
Maybe half do. And it's the older half.
2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They ... believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.
Do we? Again, maybe half the country.
4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy.
Utter nonsense. Americans want their entitlements, especially the younger ones who are clamoring for student loan forgiveness. But even older ones want their Social Security and Medicare.
They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it.
Lots of people have the drive -- working two or three jobs -- and it doesn't make them rich. Oligarchs did not get rich by working hard. They have connections, inside information, and political favors. They engage in pump & dump and other financial trickery. Look at the fortunes that were made from the Covid vax.
5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. ...
Maybe half the country. The more left-leaning ones. I'd like fewer immigrants, even if they're talented and legal.
We should invest in the talents of our native born, not bring in outsiders to compete with them (e.g., the H1B1 visas).
If 15 million Democrats got raptured, they sure didn't end up in Heaven!
I have always estimated that they faked between 15 million to 20 million votes, and it looks like you have the proof of it.
IOW don't murder pet squirrels.
That is a thought provoking graph.
You personally would benefit from addressing your chronic negativity and getting on board with Kisin’s #9.
Source is ZeroHedge:
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1854144250562429081
Good stuff. Thanks for posting it.
You seem to have an issue with Social Security and Medicare, as if it were some sort of illegitimate, not earned, sources of income for older, retired Americans. Dare I remind you that those Government programs were adopted many generations ago and represent a social contract between those individuals who work (and pay obligatory SS and similar taxes) and those who supported this system during their lifetime and now receiving the benefits. I wish there were options for people like yourself who would want to not pay SS taxes and rather do something else with those monies (invest?).
100% correct
I’ve tried to explain this to European friends. They don’t understand it.
All they know about Trump is what they hear on CNN International.
But in the modern era, America has unfortunately created a vast population of Intellectual Yet Idiot writers who have polluted the minds of too many Americans. So there's a vast herd of journalists and university professors who numbers need to be culled.
And thank you, Nassim Taleb, for your outstanding observations and devilish wit.
Most Americans are not stupid peasants and would accept that fate like Europeans do.
Thanks for your observations and this ping.
Take out the red bars and move the blue bars next to each other, and you see the Dems giving us a giant finger.
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