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 Democracy.  Aristocracy.  Mediacracy.  Meritocracy.  Mediocracy.  Bureaucracy  

I find it interesting that the two 'advisors' to the president are proponents of H1B visa.  Ramaswamy and Musk.  Musk is South African.  Ramaswamy, a first generation American born to parents of Indian descent.  They are in favor of importing talent into this country because as Musk says our education system and cultural identity has turned the United States into a culture of mediocrity; no longer a culture of excellence.

Was the United States ever a culture of excellence?  Remember cars built in the 70s and 80s?  American cars were garbage.  Because American being trash ceded an industry to the Germans and the Japanese.  We made electronics.  They got to be too expensive to make here so we off shored to countries that could build a better product for less money and destroyed manufacturing as we know it in our country.

I think the only thing America is good at making might be furniture and military weaponry.  

Get back on track.

American's are no longer driven to be the best but assume we are the best.  American exceptionalism isn't really exceptional anymore.  We're not hungry to dominate anything anymore as a country besides war.  We may have megalomaniac narcissists that want to dominate certain business sectors, but America isn't great at anything.

I think the erosion of excellence, innovation and domination comes from the educational system.  Education is now indoctrination into nonsense.  You can't possibly have a culture of excellence when second rate male athletes become dominant in female sports.  You can't have a proud culture when you can't decide the difference between a man and a woman.  You can't have scientific domination when you deny fundamentals of biology and science.  You can't have exceptional intellectual capacity in a country that promotes students to the next grade without having shown minimal competence in the grade they're currently in.  The education system promotes the unpromotable to the next level making the failures someone else's problem.  And this promotion of failure extends beyond education.

How many failures rise to the level of their own incompetence?  Some promotions are like turds in a punch bowl, floating to the top.  What you end up with is incompetence across the board, top to bottom.  But a bad worker makes a good manager?  Elon Musk has talked about this topic frequently.  He's also talked about educated people being stupid.  Just because you have a degree doesn't mean you're educated, or even smart.  It means you figured out a way to either do the work or do the time to get said degree or work the system to get a degree through brown nosing, networking, cheating or even intimidation.

People from China and India are different than us.  They're ruthless.  Relentless.  They want to dominate.  They want to win.  There is a ton of competition in those countries and the best and brightest rise to the top.  I guess when your country is an over populated shithole, they choice is rise to the top to get out of the situation or maintain the status quo. 

This country has enough sense to seek out talent in other parts of the world.  Why don't we look to fix our own problems?  Why are we also importing unskilled trash from the third world? 

Another problem is the breakdown of the family.  Parents have gotten soft and are more worried about being friends with their children instead of preparing them to be successful adults.  How many kids run the show in their respective families?  How many parents put up with rotten behavior?  How many parents park their kids in front of an iPad?  How many kids browbeat their children's teachers into giving their kids better grades than they've earned.  

Can America become great again?  I don't know.  We're a culture of entitled losers living under the assumption we're better than everyone else and we're not.  Maybe the idea isn't to be great.  The idea is to get rich while screwing over everyone around you.  Listening to the school of hard knocks interviews, listening to Robert Kiosaki, and watching useless videos with Grant Cardone you'd think the objective is to build wealth.  I don't know.