[1rudeboy]

It's mystifying to me as well. Maybe it's nativism coupled with protectionism coupled with a sense of entitlement.

[TopQuark]

I think all factors you mentioned are there. They may also have a common antecedent: the three-decades-long dumbing down of our schools have produces a people largely unaware of how their world functions. Unfortunately, for OUR people, OUR economic instutuions are the best in the world, and there is what to lose from the destructive war now waged by the block of socialists and ignorami.