Explaining the United States to the Ignorant

An Ignorant American Elite

Those who are shocked by the Trump victory truly do not understand the United States.  Anyone in this category, excluding first generation immigrants and foreigners, we can call ignorant.  

So, before moving on, you will have to admit that you are an ignorant person if you are shocked by the Trump victory.  I am here to school you, because I know the United States very well.  Nobody knows the United States like I do.  Nobody is as well-read in American history as I am.  

The book you must read to understand the United States:

Albion's Seed

You cannot understand the United States without understanding this book’s premise. I will give a rough outline and explanation below.

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Four Principles of the United States:

1. The United States is composed of Four British-Seeded cultures.
2. Anyone who wishes to participate in the American system must belong to one of these Four Groups. 
3. The Four Groups of British Seeded cultures of the United States are as follows: Puritans, Southern Cavaliers, Quakers, and Scots-Irish.
4. All American politics is an argument among these Four Groups, Without any Exceptions Whatsoever.

I am not proposing an opinion here with the Four Principles, I am stating a Law of the Universe - specifically a Four Core Principles of the United States that are non-controversial and non-debatable.  

Corollaries of the Four Principles of the United States:

1. Anyone, regardless of birth or race, can become a member of any of the Four Groups by accepting and integrating into its culture and values.  (This is why anyone from anywhere in the world can become an American, by joining one of the Four Groups.)
2. Those not a member of one of the Four Groups does not participate in the American System.
3. Those not in one of the Four Groups have Zero Real Power in the United States.   
4. Those not in one of the Four Groups are not Genuinely American.  
5. Anyone with Real Power in the United States necessarily belongs to one of these Four Groups - without any exceptions.

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Presidential Examples

Presidential examples will give you a flavor of the personality type.

Donald Trump - Scots-Irish

Hillary Clinton - Puritan

Barack Obama - Quaker

George W. Bush - Puritan

Bill Clinton - Scots-Irish

George H.W. Bush - Puritan

Ronald Reagan - Scots-Irish

Jimmy Carter - Southern Cavalier

Gerald Ford - Quaker

Richard Nixon - Quaker

Lyndon Johnson - Scots-Irish

John Kennedy - Puritan

Dwight Eisenhower - Quaker

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Explanation of the Trump Victory

Anyone who knows the above deeply and with reflection will immediately recognize how Trump won the election, and what Hillary lost.  It was a battle for the hearts and minds of Quakers - Middle America, described as the pragmatic, nice, Midwesterner.  Whoever won this guy over won the election.  Why?  The Scots-Irish and the Southern Cavaliers were naturally with Trump by temperament and style.  The Puritan Yankees will NEVER accept Trump’s temperament and style.  Thus, he said, “Screw the Puritans, and I will take the other three!”

There, my friends is the explanation for the election.  Trump rallied a coalition of Scots-Irish, Souther Cavaliers, and Quakers to win.  Hillary lost the Quakers, and only retained the Puritans.  But, since the Puritans are the Faux Elites of the United States, controlling the media and the government power base, we heard their insane fantasies of an easy Hillary win up and until the vote count.  The Puritans are the only ones that are stunned because they are the Faux Elites and Faux Leaders, and suddenly, they wake up and find they do not have as much power as they thought.  Now, they are freaking out.

(Personally, I say, screw them, but that is my opinion.)

Election 2016 Notes

My prediction two days out was not magic, contrary to popular belief. I just looked at the 2012 electoral map and looked at what Romney won. I saw Ohio and Florida, and just added up the electoral votes if it went the other way - which should have been easy for a slightly stronger candidate than Romney. And that is what happened. Boring election, and boring results if you know basic math. Not even calculus or statistics.

Couple more notes. I also note that he swept the Midwest and Rust belt, except Illinois, which confirms a lot of what we chatted about for over a year: Trump is the classic working class union Democrat candidate. This has changed American politics and put Union Democrats under the same big tent as traditional Republican voters, which is an omen for the Democratic Party, if they do not come up with a strategic response. So, Trump pulled a Reagan here: pulled another demographic into the Republican ranks, which we must admit in retrospect, is quite genius because he pulled it off against all conventional wisdom. A good side effect is that this new Union working class influence in the Republican Party will attenuate the craziness of the so-called Evangelicals with more earthy common sense. The Democrats will also be seen as traitors if they pursue their conventional strategy of importing new voters. So, they will have to change their game or keep losing. This is a realignment on the order of Ronald Reagan in 1980 with the South being brought permanently into the tent. The narrative changes from the boring "liberal versus conservative" to "Local and National Interest First versus International Interest First." More respect for national uniqueness like Russia, France, China, English, Scottish, etc. And more respect for States Rights inside America, if I can guess. State uniqueness and autonomy should improve. American bullying of locals should be reduced a lot - perhaps a slashing of the CIA budget, and less American fraud and corruption in overseas elections. Politics comes closer to home rather than looking thousands of miles away at people we do not know nor care about. Bernie Sanders voters should feel more at home - not totally satisfied, but should feel left alone, more or less.

Actually, if Trump won Pennsylvania, the Democrats have been crushed as a national party. This is probably the biggest news of the night. If Trump took a Northeastern State (PA), he has entered the territory of the Democrat core, and has completely realigned politics. So, he killed the Republican Party in the primaries, and killed off the National Democrats in the General election if he took PA. This would be like Clinton winning Alabama or something like that. So, this changes the power dynamic of the last 36 years. So, look for this: The Democrats will get insane and push illegal and legal immigration (or they are dead) but this will be seen as treason at this point, so, it is not a good night to be a leftist Democrat - for the next 10 years or so, too. I did not see this coming - winning of Pennsylvania. Wow.

In conclusion, you cannot say he is crazy any longer. The guy is a freaking genius. Which is why his enemies will continue to be defeated because he rewrote the play book and they are playing by the old rule book. The guy just refuses to lose...