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“It’s hard to imagine the Chamber of Commerce types being short-sighted enough to destroy the country their children and grandchildren have to live in. “

Good questions. I have some theories:

(1) They are convinced that if they make enough money, they and their descendants will always be able to buy their way out of any and all social problems, including leaving the country if necessary.

(2) They figure society is sinking anyway, so they might as well get as much as they can out of it first, again, under the assumption that money will get them out of any jam.

(3) Normalcy Syndrome 1: They cannot imagine things getting really bad, or collapsing. The thought being that Reagan was convinced that a national debt of $4 Trillion or so would collapse the country. It didn’t. Then the $9 Trillion of debt when Obama took office didn’t collapse the country. Now the $20 Trillion of debt still hasn’t collapsed the country. Therefore $40 Trillion, $60 Trillion, or anything higher will still not collapse the country.

(4) Normalcy Syndrome 2: The country is awash in immigrants, both legal and illegal, with roughly 15% foreign-born. Nothing much has really changed - so what harm would 30% be? Or 60%. The concept of foreign-born people mostly voting for a Democrat Party that is getting more and more radicalized, to the part of making us a One-Party State under their iron fist is simply beyond their capability to imagine. There will always be a (relatively) non-corrupt and free system with two viable parties...because there always has been.

(5) How could they not love America and our ways? We are so perfect that anyone, from anywhere in the world, with any background (such as be-headers) would just love living in our society as it exists today that they would simply and quickly blend-in, just as the Europeans did for hundreds of years (through about 1920). The fact that the new arrivals now have very different backgrounds, with many dead-set on turning this country into an ISIS-type hell-hole is simply something they cannot accept - after all, they know many Muslims, all of whom are hard working, friendly, very smart, and seem to be living the American Dream. Therefore their kids will be the same and the newer ones coming in will be the same...and when they hear the radicalized Imams at the mosque and see them on satellite TV, they’ll all laugh it off, as just another crazed preacher.

(6) Revenge: They despise our side so much that they’ll worry about picking up the pieces and finding a way to survive after they crush us. They figure they will be in power, or at least have close connections to those that are in power, that they will be taken care of. It doesn’t phase them that by 1932 (or so) every leading Bolshevik that was part of Lenin’s revolution had been terminated by Stalin. They just cannot imagine that others might come in a seize power right out of their hands...which will happen. [this more explains the hard-left, than the business interests, but I figured I’d put it here].

That’s my take.