Hmm, not sure if I understand what he's even trying to say here. Boiling away the smug gives me a vague kind of American exceptionalism where he insists that the rest of the world is just "jealous" of the US. Common belief over there, or so I've heard, but I don't think any other country has been jealous of the US for 20 years at least, maybe longer.
As the western Roman empire was collapsing, various Roman nobles continued on with "business as usual" without really seeing any sort of direct "collapse" in their eyes. There was no real magical event that "ended" the western empire, it just sort of faded away over time. This guy reminds me a lot of that sort of mentality. Insisting things are as they were a generation ago despite all evidence to the contrary. The US as a nation could cease to exist and this guy would still be saying "the economy is doing fine" because the local warlord in the Utah Clique treats him personally quite well.
Hmm, not sure if I understand what he's even trying to say here. Boiling away the smug gives me a vague kind of American exceptionalism where he insists that the rest of the world is just "jealous" of the US. Common belief over there, or so I've heard, but I don't think any other country has been jealous of the US for 20 years at least, maybe longer.
As the western Roman empire was collapsing, various Roman nobles continued on with "business as usual" without really seeing any sort of direct "collapse" in their eyes. There was no real magical event that "ended" the western empire, it just sort of faded away over time. This guy reminds me a lot of that sort of mentality. Insisting things are as they were a generation ago despite all evidence to the contrary. The US as a nation could cease to exist and this guy would still be saying "the economy is doing fine" because the local warlord in the Utah Clique treats him personally quite well.