Tucker Carlson Is Wrong About Moscow — And The United States

The Federalist ^ | 2/14/2024 | David Harsanyi

[marcusmaximus]

At the World Government Summit, Tucker Carlson told a gathering of world leaders that Moscow “was so much nicer than any city” in the United States. “It’s radicalizing for an American to go to Moscow,” Tucker went on. “I didn’t know that. I’ve learned it this week, to Singapore, to Tokyo, to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, because these cities, no matter how we’re told they’re run and on what principles they’re run, are wonderful places to live

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If you’re wealthy, I imagine, Moscow is pretty great. This is true of most European cities. When you’re an American tourist, you tend to stay in clean and beautiful city centers, eat at the best spots, and wander around the most attractive areas of town. In Europe, you get to see onion domes that were built by serfs dotting the skyline. I’m sure it’s neat.

It is also true that if you’re an average person, Moscow is awful. The average Muscovite is most likely to live in some grim outlying apartment complex, many of which were built during the Soviet era. That’s if they’re lucky. Many Russians live in Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, and Ufa. Russia’s per capita yearly GDP is around $13,000. In the United States, it is around $83,000. It’s around $46,000 in Mississippi, our poorest state. Most Russians are living in what most Americans would consider poverty.

Not everything is about money, of course. Religious commitment? Around 50-65 percent of Americans claimed religion was important to them (depending on the poll). In Russia, it’s at 16-34 percent. The Russian divorce rate is at 74 percent, the highest in the world.

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But that doesn’t change the fact that 20 percent of Russian households don’t have indoor plumbing. Or that a third of Russian hospitals don’t have running water.

[rxh4n1]

So what? Russia has always been a craphole, and we’re rapidly heading that way. Go to East Cleveland, or Cairo, or Keokuk, and there are hundreds of other cities and towns failing all across the USA. We need to take care of ourselves before we go saving foreigners. We can’t afford to be rescuing the whole world anymore.

[Gaffer]

Agree. The poster’s thread and comments leave me wondering just where is this idyllic place in which he is living?

[JoeRender]

Tucker speaks the truth. And there are those that hate the truth to be spoken. And it sure looks like some of them are on FreeRepublic.