You know what I guess that is when Europe started to really deteriorate in the first place
that huge wave of European migration after World War II, of which my parents were a part of, brought all the Europeans with chutzpah, work ethic, love of freedom over here and left the whiners, losers and lovers of the status quo at home.....so in essence Europe had a "courage drain"....
even in the 1950's my father felt there was so much bureaucracy etc in Holland that he'd have a better shot in Canada and man was he right.....although the encrouching bureaucracy here is getting down right annoying.....
of course Canada and America were founded by brave gutsy Europeans, sick of the aristocracy and the Church etc.....
Unnatural self-selection.
We are the genetic inheritors of people who said "F*** this S***!. I'm outta here!"
"You know what I guess that is when Europe started to really deteriorate in the first place"
In the late 1970's the US and Europe were going in similar directions - down the crapper. Thatcher came and saved England, which is why England still has the most potential of all of Europe, and, you guessed it, Ronald Reagan came and completely turned around a spiraling downward America. G-d bless him.