The average European and particularly the average working class European always

The average European and particularly the average working class European always appears on average so much better educated than his American peer. This may be a selection effect since I can only interact with those who are competent English speakers. But the test data seems to confirm it. And while it is heretical to state that the heterogeneity of the American population accounts for those scores, it remains that peers of Europeans in the USA are less literate and less numerate.

On the other hand, the average American is extraordinarily conscious of the country’s military, political, and financial role in the world – even though the cannot choose whether to be pleased or frustrated by it.

I am one of those Americans that tends to resent Europeans who treat us with disdain despite our expensive subsidy of their economies.

American foreign policy is not conducted on emotive or moral grounds, but strategic grounds. Always. Good or bad.

The world would be a better place if we withdrew from europe and forced them to bear the same burdens we do.

Perhaps then our values would converge. It is not understood on either side of the pond that two centuries ago Americans thought precisely about Europe what Europeans think about America today.

And people around the world congratulate themselves on their moral choices despite the fact that geography, demographics, and economic conditions are the source of their opinion, not their deliberate choice.

The usa will be energy independent soon which will put us in strategic conflict with Europe. We will no longer have material reason nor the means to play policeman to the world.

Maintaining a stable price of oil as well as food and currency is too much of a burden for the American people.

So something will change here one way or another.

And self congratulatory moral convenience will change with it.