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In Reply to: In the US, third parties shoot for the moon. posted by ghost of olddude55 on September 13, 2020 at 09:09:26:
Systems of government are often created in a veritable stone age and we keep adhering to notions of a very different age when people were first settling the land.
I have met many American travelers (the kind who live and work) overseas and get used to the European and HK and Australia and Canada ways and then tell me if they could they would never go back to the States. But then they're not millionaires - what is that old joke - that when you're young and broke you're a liberal but if you become a millionaire you become conservative. It's easy for young people to protest because they have nothing (sometimes literally) to lose. But if you have $200k in the bank and a nice house and a mortgage and a steady job - are you going to risk it all to protest for the problems faced by other people? Probably not. I am not out protesting the Chinese government's tactics in Hong Kong.
The USA from my perspective is a cowboy nation and while overly religious actually seems to follow the Darwinian model of "survival of the fittest" and everyone is out for themselves.
At the end of the day it's one big blue ball - and the fact that I was born in one area doesn't mean anything. It's luck that we were born in first world relatively safe countries with good social programs. We could have drawn the bad lottery ticket and been born in some train wreck of a country.
Wealth and Education are the way out. Countries will always take millionaires and they will take qualified people in fields of need like engineering or doctors. The other way out is marriage - worked for Melania - doing the job no American would do. :)
Once you see a pattern where something is not going to be fixed - find a place to live that is already "fixed" - be mobile. Plenty of Americans move overseas and they often don't want to return.
This is why I am trying not to bother with US politics as much anymore - the odd satirical cartoon - but people can read the news for themselves. They can listen to the political leaders and decide for themselves.
I have been watching Star Trek DS-9 and ODO said to Quark over his striking employees "I don't like mobs. In my opinion, if you need one to get what you want, it's not worth getting."
And that's why I left teaching in Canada - you can stay and fight for the "cause" or you can leave the profession and do something else - or you can move to a province or country where you get paid and where there is not so much political in fighting. I have been teaching in Hong Kong for 9 years - I could have spent the 9 years back in Canada picketing and complaining but where would that have landed me? I would be renting a place. My mom would still be living in the 1960s built apartment that was run down - I'd still have student loans - I would never have been able to go on a decent vacation etc etc. All in the "fight" to make the school system better? If the parents aren't out in the streets trying to make it better and they don't support the teachers - then what's the use of that fight?
In Hong Kong where parents are heavily involved and press the government (and the people in government also have kids and push their kids) and "some" things are a lot better as a result. Less creativity but more focus on skills and "job-worthy" academics. The education in the arts is merely there to pass the exams as opposed to creating an intrinsic interest or appreciation of the arts. Children are geared to work in high paying fields with a focus on mathematics, physics, medicine, IT etc. English classes are focused on letter writing or communicating with the boss. Composition over literature.
The west is filled with Liberal Arts degrees - which may make you more rounded but it's hard to get a job designing automobiles or creating code for Microsoft. But the nation is filled with a lot of quick witted Starbucks Baristas well versed in Arthur Miller - so that's something. :)
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- Sorry - had to correct a few errors in my above post... - RGA 09/13/2019:19:07 09/13/20 (0)
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