U.S. Results Analysis
Everything is foreseen, yet free will is granted…the mystical side of Judaism and life
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths
Many pundits are busy trying to analyze U.S. election results. Something big happened this U.S. election, with American politics shifting in a major way. Because of America’s disproportionate wealth and military strength, major changes in the U.S. have a world wide impact besides it’s own domestic impact. This makes them worth examining, if briefly.
For the last 75 years or so (at least since World War II), if not for the majority of it’s history, the U.S. has had a solid majority culture and demographic. The majority culture of the U.S. has never been a pure ethnic culture. With constant immigration throughout it’s history from different sources (an Irish immigration, a Chinese immigration, an Italian immigration, a Jewish immigration, etc, etc), America has never been an ethnic monolith. Rather the American culture has been an ideological culture.
In the past the “average American” could trace back to his immigrant forefathers in 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 generations. He knew his immigrant forefathers came to “the land of the free” for freedom and opportunity. The American culture was freedom and opportunity. Reality may not have always lived up to the billing, but the culture said anyone could made it.
But the last 2 generations have seen the move to “multi-culturalism” – the concept that all cultures are equal. For all cultures to be equal, the last 2 generations of American children had to be educated that American culture, which does not have common ethnic, religious or tribal roots to hold it together, was just another cultural choice among many. And American history has plenty of horrendous historical events which can be used to demonstrate it’s failings (examples such as African slavery and the genocidal wars against American Indians).
America has never been particularly assimilationist. You can come to America, eat foreign foods, worship foreign gods, build a foreigner community, yet enjoy the advantages of America and strive for the overall cultural goals. Deemphasize those goals and American cultural values (since all cultures are equal), and the slow assimilation of generations drops off.
The result – the “majority culture” of America is no longer the majority. America has successfully been subdivided. It has entered the generation of identity politics and sub-culture goals. President Obama understood, exploited and furthered this trend, while the GOP and Mitt Romney simply did not.
Here’s the vote statistics that won the election for President Obama:
% African American votes for Obama – 93% (who make up 13% of voters)
% Hispanic American votes for Obama – 78% (who make up 10% of voters)
% Singe Women votes for Obama – 67% (who make up 23% of voters)
% Atheists who voted for Obama – 70% (who make up 12% of voters)
…and that’s the election.
There’s obviously some overlap there (one can be a single hispanic atheist women for example), but if you’ve got 30% of the vote tied up before you start, you don’t have much of a hurdle to overcome to win. You just have to get 20% of the rest to vote for you.
What about “middle America”?
% “White” American votes for Romney – 59%
% Married Women votes for Romney – 53%
% Evangelical Xian votes for Romney – 78%
% Catholic White Xian votes for Romney – 59%
So today, “middle America” can’t hold it’s own. Even giving a candidate 60% support isn’t a win. Middle America’s not used to tribal politics, but that’s the new name of the game.
The result is, without a doubt, more extremism. Each “group” can be openly extreme about what they want…and who they hate. There are no repercussions, protection comes from the tribe, preventing any backlash from the national culture. The game is pandering and trading support for group kickbacks.
Welcome to the new America – the anti-melting pot. If you assimilate, you lose.
2012-11-08 18:45:12
Source: http://www.mpaths.com/2012/11/us-results-analysis.html
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