A lot of Britain’s problems date from WWI, when most of their upper classes were wiped out. WWII killed off some more, as well as the stronger of the middle classes, so what was left behind were a majority of weaklings, defectives, and unreliables.
America, on the other hand, was more egalitarian in our fights, and so, for example, after the Civil War, often the poorest and most ignorant had been killed. Both WWI and WWII were draftee wars, and our military command was judicious in how our soldiers were used, so often individual bad judgment was to blame for getting killed. This balanced out the loss of good soldiers who were unlucky.
America’s problems devolve mostly from having better health care. A hundred and fifty years ago, infant mortality was sky high, epidemics were common, and even the strong who survived were often afflicted. Once this mortality was brought down, there was a jump in the number of “defective” offspring who survived. This in turn led to the interest in eugenics after the turn of the century.
‘A lot of Britain’s problems date from WWI, when most of their upper classes were wiped out. WWII killed off some more, as well as the stronger of the middle classes, so what was left behind were a majority of weaklings, defectives, and unreliables.’
Bilge from start to finish. And utterly offensive too.
Pretty much that is what the two wars did to Europe as a whole, and they will never recover from it.