Authored by Davide Battistella,
I really admire America’s democracy. While many people have been pointing to greatness of European or Swedish societies, the fact remains that America, because of it’s unique constitution, is still the place on earth where people from any background can create any life they desire.
I have lived in North America and Europe for extended periods of time and an old world fact remains; that many European countries, like Italy, the one I lived in are still very much based on birthright and social class.
These “boxes” are well defined, so well defined that people inherently understand from a fairly early age that they are not simple things to break out of. Your liberty, or freedom, is based more on these factors than anything else. These preset confines are places where you will spend the rest of your life.
That is not sad for some people, but it is for those who perhaps fled to seek a better life in America, or to the millions of young Italians NOW who leave Italy with no hope of breaking the shackles of these entrenched classes. In Europe people are defined by their social class, education and politics in a way that does not allow much free movement or a life away from those positions. I equate the way these classes view people to the way they might scrutinize the purchase of a dog or a horse.
The educated and wealthy class in Europe carry a kind of entitlement that they can not help. It is embedded in their DNA. This same class, the result of a century of great success, has permeated large swaths of the left and right coasts in America, where upward mobility and “new thinking” have taken Americans away from their constitution and more into a place where they feel the need to join with their internet enabled brethren around the world as one “new voice” and “global community”, leaving behind, of course people with regular lives.
In recent years it seems that what some Americans had forgotten about their country are things like; liberty and the fact that America is a true meritocracy where you can overcome. These are the prevailing ideas which brought America to define itself and it’s place in the world. The people who claim this superiority may have also forgotten that while they may be “driving the new American thinking”, the engine is still made up of of the 40 or so states between those left and right coasts.
The class of “millionaire socialists” might be the most dangerous of all of these creatures. These are the educated entitled class who tend to shift their publicly stated left leaning values toward what feels right at the time. These are the kind of folks who preach about public education but send their own kids to private schools, the folks who are “environmentalists” who fly private jets. They embrace every benefit of capitalism while denouncing it.
Their actions very rarely mimic their politically correct beliefs and they have spun themselves into a reality of excess and abundance that they fiercely protect and refuse to relinquish. In a sense they have become the new, “pigs at the trough” as we witness at it’s zenith through what we can all plainly see are the operating principles of the Clinton foundation. In a blind twist, they have become the very thing they believe they are not, the very working man they fight for is forgotten, the impoverished disaster victim in Haiti, a chance for profit, the aids cure deliverer, lining the pockets of big pharma.
It’s like they take the best America has to offer while giving it the finger at the same time. America’s success has always been it’s economic engine. Those people who work everyday without saying much but who in this election made their voices heard by being ever present and following through. That is a core American value lost on this “millionaire socialist class” who present contradiction after contradiction in their very way of being.
As one example, abortion was never really supposed to be birth control, but if their own daughter may need to have one to not “risk ruining her life by having a baby “sooner than expected”. Their very thinking is more toward erasing mistakes than preventing them to help society in any number of situations.
This is the thing the pollsters, themselves a large part of the MSC (millionaire socialist class) and by extension their millennial university educated children are and have become. They have missed the simple fact that there are actually other people who occupy the space they feel belongs solely to them.
They also seem to like to be against things rather that for things. Moveon.org is a great example. In precisely one day this group was able to organize 200 events across the country to stand in unity against something, their new common enemy, President Elect Donald J. Trump. Where were these same people in the flailing final weeks of Hillary’s campaign. Where were they when it was time for them to be FOR Hillary Clinton?
The answer is simply that she was not the perfect enough candidate for them and while they could not be for or against her they simply sat on that virtual wall they love to sit on playing wait and see before designing a few banners, sipping a latte and then and going off to a March. What are they marching for? Freedom? Human rights? Justice? Ninety percent of those “protesters” are sleeping under a feather duvet tonight.
This “activist” (whom I might consider borderline terrorists) group had a marvelous opportunity to stand FOR something over the course of the campaign, but it seems the billionaire socialist who leads them had issued an order to stand down until it was time to stand up – against – something.
To me a group like this represents the untapped potential in America that people would like to see unleashed. When President Obama described the election as intramural sports he made a great analogy. He reminded Americans that they should remember that they are on the same team, that you play the game to win, you fight to win and sometimes you loose. You don’t invent overtime to try to win when the clock has runout. It’s as pathetic as the brexit petitions. We lost, we are right, you are wrong, therefore our democracy must change. Pardon me, but FUCK THAT.
Many of MSC are looking to Canada now. Well, I lived there too and let me tell them about one great Canadian sports tradition practised by hockey players. It’s called the handshake line. You battle, fight check, score, and give it your all, but in the end each player did it on the same sheet of ice and you honor that place where you did battle by shaking hands. It’s a gesture that shows respect for the fundamental things that make democracy work; your opponent (opposing views), the game (politics and debate), and process.
Americans should reflect and think about getting behind that great nation called America again. No need to raise the middle finger. That engine sitting in middle America wants to participate, they want to get revved up and they are as much a part of a great nation as the right and left coasts. Remember the campaign slogan they picked out of 85 prospects was “STRONGER TOGETHER”. Well, heed a little advice from your candidates failed campaign. That slogan is more true now than it was a few weeks ago.
All Americans have this duty now because it’s their country the world looks to, now perhaps more than ever. Don’t be a part of the destruction gang, get with the construction crew. The world with that you for it.
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