Please allow me to explain the mindset of my people, U.S. citizens. I know Americans, albeit my certain knowledge comes from a specific race and nationality hailing from the nations of Western Europe. Long ago, my people came to the New World, as this ‘discovered’ continent was called, for whatever reason. [We were taught it was something very noble like religious freedom, to practice Christianity as they believed best, and more truthfully to not be persecuted for their Christian practices whether Catholic or Protestant—in the Old Country, imprisonment and death were quite likely.]
I can tell you, citizens of the world, why Americans (well a tad more than 50%) voted for Trump twice. America has had a mostly middle-class citizenry for a good century or so—especially after World War II. But then all that blowing and going and economic gains for most American families in the mid-20th century came to a sudden halt in the 1970s. That’s when a number of very important U.S. industries, such as auto manufacturers, closed up shop in this here Land of the Free and Home of the Brave and moved way across the sea or just south of the border to continue business at a greatly reduced cost. Business is, after all, the most important thing in the heart, mind and soul of an American. We understand it. We accept it. We’re also very angry about it (because it puts us all in jeopardy).
To be an American is to understand the almighty dollar. Most of us just want to work, have a good job, raise kids, have some time off, enjoy our lifetime. Most of us don’t really want to be millionaires. That is an incredibly tiny segment of the U.S. population, rare—and rarer still the very few who have the je ne sais quoi [meaning “I know not what”] to break through to the other side and join the teeny tiny ranks of wealthy Americans.
But all of us understand what it takes to make it in this country: We pull ourselves up from our bootstraps and get up every day to work and earn our keep. That last part is very critical in understanding our collective American mindset. It goes back to when families first started coming over here and through the decades spanned out to settle across the prairie and along the coasts, mountains and hills.
We are taught to take care of our own, meaning literally our own family and if we don’t have a family then just our own selves.
So with this uniquely American philosophy, permeating throughout our modern era, comes a great hatred for taking care of millions of people we don’t know and honestly do not care about. Cruel as it sounds, it’s not, not to Americans and the way we figure. And my people think they have a point; a good half of our population thinks this a-way.
I suppose the attitude of “I got mine; you get yours” sounds selfish. [And, well hell, it is.] But when Ronald Reagan said it, it just made sense. You have to FIRST take care of yourself and family. And all will turn out right if you strive toward that goal (and that goal only). Never mind if that goal at times meant some families and communities were harassed with burning crosses in their front yards or if this goal created segregation and job discrimination against races who were not WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) or prejudices and bigotry against all immigrants in this country (this nation founded by and for immigrants). That is U.S. history.
With every election, Americans who vote are choosing how to spend our tax dollars. Whether they think about it or not, each voter is at a gut level voting to sit on the money (not one dime to anyone who isn’t one of us) or to use American tax revenue for the common good (whatever that is).
The greater good
This is the difference between our two political parties, groups of opposing viewpoints who sometimes merged together toward progress but nowadays have intentionally and harshly divorced from one another.
That’s where we are today in the U.S.
Notice no protests, or very few, against all the mass federal worker firings and the dubious reviews by an unelected billionaire/trillionaire and his troupe of unknown young acolytes. Americans are mostly silent. None of us is shocked or awed. We’re not all that enraged by legitimate media banned from covering our federal government. For decades many Americans have wanted to ‘drain the swamp’ that is believed to be our federal government. It used to be the working man’s motto ‘Throw the bums out’ referred to all the elected leaders who go to D.C. and then do nothing (other than vote themselves raises and the very best health insurance courtesy of U.S. taxpayers).
The great majority of us live nowhere near our capitol of Washington, D.C., and really know nothing about how government gets done. But our 300 million citizens across the country have come to believe, for generations now, that our federal government—with a budget of $6.75 trillion and a massive $30 trillion debt—is bloated and ineffectual and … exactly how are we not bankrupt by now?
So the ‘fat’ of presumed government waste is being chopped off. [Again, the waste used to refer to elected officials in Congress not necessarily to all the federal employees.]
And as the world knows about America and Americans, we tend to shoot first and ask questions later.
That’s what’s going on now. We finally have a U.S. President who will fire almost everyone who is a federal employee—so despised are they, these loafers who are paid by us, the American taxpayers.
Unlike our European cousins and other relatives across the world, the U.S. has always prided itself in looking out for Number One. That concept is not only unknown to the rest of the world’s people but indeed flat-out cruel not to mention impolite and, as everyone except an American knows, hardly Christian. [JC did teach us to “love our neighbors like ourselves,” the neighbors being everyone on the planet.]
One final thing to never forget about Americans is our nation produces the highest number of sociopaths compared to every nation on earth—our rate believed by psychologists to be 20 to 25 percent of our population. Other nations, which have been around for thousands of years, may have two to five percent of their population who turn out to be sociopaths.
What is a sociopath? A sociopath is someone who has no regard toward other people, is antagonistic and selfish, loves only himself and never anyone else even spouses and family, who has usually average intelligence although a few are brilliant, and whose only ambition throughout life—and the longer they live, the more clearer the picture becomes—is to destroy people, leave a trail of ruined lives and businesses, and get off by watching people he’s pitted against each other. They are cheaters. They are lazy. They don’t really work for a living. A few manage to have money from dubious circumstances including inherited wealth.
Prisons are full of sociopaths, people who thought they would get away with their crimes because they understand human beings are generally nice, polite, kind, don’t get too nosy or ask a lot of questions. Sociopaths will easily anger if they are pressed about their motivations. They don’t want to be found out. On the other hand, they don’t give a damn either.
So people of Earth, for now Americans have elected someone that leans toward ruining tens of thousands of lives in D.C. which will inevitably ruin many others across the U.S. as well as immediately impact the entire world—because in the past, the U.S. used to be proud of our leadership in the world. We liked thinking of ourselves as the Good Guys, helping mankind and fighting injustice across the entire planet. But for now, and hopefully not for long or forever, America can finally proclaim it’s no Friend of the World. We are practicing the political isolationism that I assure you many Americans have always wanted … throughout our entire history.