SS Radio #211: I guess Rusty needs his own podcast.
Respectfully disagreeing with the Coach’s statement at 37:40; “We can not lay claim to the idea anymore that we are a country, a country, in a sense that Germany is country”.
In fact, the US has never been a country in the sense that Germany is a country. Germany, Japan and Egypt are examples of nation states. Nation states consists of citizens that are relatively homogeneous in common descent, culture and language. That has never been the United States. The greater Massachusetts Bay colony (1630) started about 150 years before the US Constitution was ever signed. It was started by the Puritans (not the Pilgrims) who originated from East Anglia England. They settled most of New England (but not NYC), the northern midwest and the northern West Coast which still carry Puritan culture and values to this day (The “public good”* is prioritized over Individual Rights). The Scotts Irish that settled greater Appalachia (Western PA to northern Texas) established a totally different culture and value system which also exists to this day (Individual rights are prioritized over the “public good”). There was a brief period of time after WW2 when the vets filled corporate and political leadership positions and created a slightly more homogenous value system across the US, but this is gone and we are back to normal conditions; a Federation of separate nations. The Libs (modern day Puritans) are attempting to dominate the nation with their value system as they’ve been doing for the last 200+ years via the Federal Government. Greater Appalachia and the South are the main resisters which has also been the case for the last 200+ years.
*The “public good” is defined as whatever the cultural elite define as the “public good”. Four hundred years ago, the Puritan leadership defined the public good around a religious utopia in which leaders had to sign the “Westminster Confession of Faith”. Per their leader John Winthrop; “To this end, we must be knit together, in this work, as one man”. In other words, the people give up their individual rights to serve their society. Today, it’s a secular utopia in which leaders have to sign Equity Statements, but it’s basically the same thing. White people, especially men, must publicly confess their original sin.
Another note on the Puritans; They also had a lot of strengths that allowed them to dominate the country. For example, they placed an extremely high value on education. Within only 6 years of arriving to the US, they had already establish Harvard College. More than 75% of the Puritans were literate by the late 1600’s which is hundreds of years ahead of the rest of the world. It’s no accident that Libs dominate the University system today. Their unity allowed them to build public infrastructure ahead of the South which was critical for a strong economy and instrumental in their victory over the South in the Civil war.
And one more note, New York City culture holds some values in common with the Puritans, but they were always far more tolerant. This is why you’ll see many Libs from the New York area (Bill Maher, Fran Lebowitz, Richard Dreyfus) rail against Woke culture. New Yorkers were never Puritans, but they will ally with the Puritans in a battle against the South because New Yorkers support strong public institutions and public projects. Strong public institutions support infrastructure which is good for business.
Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe
