Q&A of the day – About South Florida’s demographics & politics
It’s the Q&A of the day. Each day I’ll feature a listener question that’s been submitted by one of these methods.
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Today’s question…
Despite your very insightful description of both FL Governors, past & present, I'm still believing that your pragmatic, & honest common sensical opinions, are in motion. Reality: South FL isn't the U.S. anymore. Pandering to & welcoming foreign ways, makes us losers.
Bottom Line:I think the biggest threat to the United States in our lifetimes is us. And the catalyst is socialism. The mechanism to perpetuate it is the education establishment. With that premise advanced I’ll take a step back to address your concern that South Florida isn’t the US anymore because we pander to foreign ways...
The most foreign concept to the American way is the lack of economic freedom. It was the lack of economic freedom that provided the catalyst for the American Revolution at the onset. Upon our founding it was economic freedom that allowed the US to go from a rag tag group of colonies, that literally fought a war with itself yet still became the world’s leading Super-Power within 150 years. That’s why socialism, state control/regulation of the means of production, is the greatest threat to the country. Your concern regarding South Florida’s pandering to “foreign ways”, is legitimate if those ways are to embrace socialism and/or communism. Otherwise,provided that we do emphasize assimilation, it’s a huge part of the solution.
The most homogeneous state in the country is Vermont. 95% of Vermont’s population is white and 94.5% of the population was born in the United States. What has that netted us politically? Bernie Sanders and socialism. What’s more is that the state is so far to the left that Donald Trump won just 29% of the vote in 2016. So much for native born homogeneous behavior preserving American exceptionalism. Let’s compare Vermont’s vote to South Florida. Here’s the percentage of the vote for President Trump in the Tri-County area:
- Broward: 31%
- Miami-Dade: 34%
- Palm Beach: 41%
You’ll notice that all three of South Florida’s most diverse and left-leaning counties were more likely to support Donald Trump than the most homogeneous state in the country.
I believe its legal immigrants who understand the evils of socialism in ways that most native-born Americans don’t, who will help save us from ourselves & the complicit education establishment. This country has evolved through a series of catalysts. I believe the battle against socialism is next and the positive catalysts to defeat it will come from those who’ve fled it.