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2017-07-08 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-08 02:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Picture this.....

A student goes to school to major in public policy or education or social psychology. She graduates, decides to become a teacher herself. Goes through all the hoops, does all the theses, and finally becomes a public school teacher or a professor at some local community college.

When she finally gets to her goal, she finds out that a guy who owns the local plumbing business or a small chain of shoe stores makes several times her salary. Suffused with anger, she tells herself, "How can this be? I'm SO much smarter than those guys, I worked SO hard to get where I am, and those morons are making a lot more than I do! It's not fair, I deserve to be the one who makes the most money and has the most stuff! THIS CAPITALIST SYSTEM IS WRONG!"

Never for a moment does she consider that there might not be anything wrong with the system, that maybe her smarts aren't so great, and maybe what she does isn't so damned special, and maybe her neighbors making thousands of independent decisions are a better way of allocating and directing where money goes in society than a few stuck up "educators" using the power of the state to force people to give the most money to educators.

Nations can act in the same way. From where I sit, many people in European countries are a lot like the woman in my example. "It's just plain wrong", they tell themselves, "that those crass, gun toting, God-believing, coarse, ignoramus Americans have done so well, so much better than us". The left in those countries, of course, but others as well.

Too often we get caught up in the weeds when it comes to motivations. Nearly all of the time look to economics and you'll find your answer.

Posted by no mo uro 2017-07-08 06:01|| 2017-07-08 06:01|| Front Page Top

#2 The core of why they hate us is honestly very simple. In their heart, they know they are inferior. They are weak, add nothing of value to the human race and are too afraid to change so instead they will happily drill holes in the bottom of the boat to sink us all so nobody realizes they are weak, spineless vermin unworthy of the race of humanity.

Posted by Silentbrick 2017-07-08 21:44|| 2017-07-08 21:44|| Front Page Top

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