So sad that people still see the United States as the promised country. It hasn't been for a while, but seems to stick. Yes you can make it on the US, but many don't. 🤔
I have 3 Nicaraguans living with me in the USA. All nephews who moved here for the two year parole option (I'm their sponsor). Two of the three are here just to make a bunch of money for investments in businesses and farms in Nicaragua -so they ca set up a middle class Nicaraguan life. One wants to stay in the USA, but it may not be possible, particularly with the likely change in administrations next year.
Habe you ever talked to the government about your ideas ? Would they listen ? Wouid yhey feel threatened? I think many Americans are scared to invest time, assets etc because of fear of getting property taken
Well, I'd like to think that I'm a big deal and can just call up people who matter ;) However, in reality, the government watches my videos daily, as does the US government. Being the most prominant English language vlogger in a country might not be a big deal, but it does warrant "paying attention" so by the time you've me saying "here's an idea", both the US and Nicaragua have seen it too. Not by someone super important (no offense RUclips monitor dude that is reading this) BUT, in theory, by someone that could pass it on to someone. So, in a sense, by putting it here, I kind of am telling them about it. My "My Ideas on the Future of Nicaragua" video was definitely intended to be seen, just in case someone needs some ideas. The government here would definitely not find my videos threatening. I'm super supportive of the people and economy of Nicaragua and the government here is focused on doing good for the people. So while they might not listen or agree with my ideas, they wouldn't be threatened by someone hoping to make a difference in the same way. Many Americans ARE scared of having property taken. But there is nothing Nicaragua can do about a false fear. That fear is caused by the assumption that other countries can just take property the way that the US does mixed with fake news in the US claiming that it happens combined with a history of that happening, under US rule, in Nicaragua in the past. The US typically points to they themselves stealing property, in Nicaragua, and saying "see people can steal your land" ignoring the fact that they themselves were the ones who stole it and without anyone's permission. A bit like going to someone else's neighborhood, claiming it's a dangerous place, and then stabbing someone yourself to make the point.
Short answer: Nicaragua is under the worst dictatorship of it's history, period. There is nothing funny of the fact that we nicaraguans are under repression, just go out and look on every important roundabout are filled with heavy armed "national" police. We can't complain, literally. Thats all I will say, thanks for liking Nicaragua. I like your videos.
I'm from the US. I've never seen any police anywhere in Nicaragua that qualifies as heavily armed. Many are not armed at all. Police in roundabouts is about the least oppressive place a cop could be. Lightly armed or unarmed police occassionally standing around to guard monuments - you've just defined the least repressed situation on the planet. By comparison, the US has truly heavily armed police on the street with M16s and body armour, right in the middle of pedestrian areas (they are repressing anyone, they are just honestly defending important buildings and such.) Or in Italy, the monuments in Italy aren't just guarded by police by my caribinari - literally infantry units with heavy weapons. Nicaragua's degree of freedom and lack of police presence is so strong that I think most Nicaraguans have no idea what the rest of the world is like and feel that just by having police it feels like a lot. But it's nothing compared to El Salvador, the US, Germany, Italy, etc. Not that those places are bad. It's just that barely armed police hanging out by monuments where people don't go (it's in the middle of traffic) to keep monuments from being defaced is literally the farthest thing from being repressed you could describe.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog so sad that you take that position, only we nicaraguans know what we're going through. One thing is what foreigners see and other is what we nicas live. Nicaragua won Miss Universe, and the "government" forbids any kind of celebration, is that normal? Well there's very little that we can do about it, feeling very hopeless. Have a nice day Scott.
Really like the segment that talks about the perception that people have of everyone is wealthy and life is easy in the states. Some people prosper, but the journey of getting here is just the tip of the iceberg.
Why is Central America divided up in so many tiny countries with problems like crime, revolt and poor economic success? This should be a tropical paradise with booming economies. Somehow I would think it could be the fault of the USA either due to interference or neglect. The USA came up with the Monroe Doctrine and then did little to advance the area beyond the Panama canal.
Well you'd have to divide up the question. For example "why is it divided up into so many small countries" is a very different background than "why is there such limited economic success." And the issues are not universal. Some of the countries have crime. Some are struggling economically (none are booming, but Guatemala doesn't FEEL poor at all when you are there, for example.) Some don't have revolt (but DO have US backed attempts to overthrow them - but that's like calling an invasion a revolt, it's external vs internal, but portrayed in the media as internal to distance the US from its interventions.)
Scott love your story today, I am an aircraft mechanic here in Canada and I have always said to my wife "How come I never see an aircraft mechanic living in these houses in the movies?" LOL
Hey Scott, off topic question. I've been researching Countries, trying to find ones who use less chemical treatment on their food. There was a thread going in one Nicaragua Facebook group, and the opinions were very split. Some even said Nicaragua has been MonSantos playground. What are your thoughts?
GMO products are illegal in Nicaragua. Even the USDA lists this as anyone using GMO sources can't ship to Nicaragua with limited exceptions of end products not intended for human consumption. GMO seeds are illegal. Planting GMO crops is illegal. The US is all in on GMO, no american company would want to use a country that would consider holding them accountable for health issues to test when they have the larger US market where they can test on humans with impunity.
I have a farm in Nicaragua. There is no demand for organic products in Nicaragua, so to raise organic products, you have to sell them for more. People here take whatever they grow to the Mercado and sell it. They get no premium for organic. The premium is paid by how large and pristine the product looks. Very few people till soil anymore, which is required to plant organically. The planting season begins with a coating of some generic version of Roundup. I was taught by a Nicaraguan man in his 80s how to raise crops here. He believes that tilling reduces your productivity, and he is correct. Few people have a tractor. If you are mechanically removing weeds, that usually means renting a rich person's services, which costs more than RoundUp. If not, it means making a plow from branches and pulling it with a horse. Enough Roundup to do 10 acres costs about 5 bucks. During a bad insect season, you apply Ciprometrina to your crops every four days. Some years, you don't need so much. Ciprometrina ingredients look like they would qualify as organic, but do your own evaluation. There are GMO-free regions in Nicaragua, such as Rivas. That leads me to believe there are non-GMO-free regions. Only one brand and one variety of seeds are available for each grain crop in my departamento. It is not marked with the breed. Nobody I know saves seeds for grains. Not even 2-acre family farms. They buy the seeds coated with a blue powder. It just says that it is antifungal and antipest on the outside. Grains, including rice and beans, are imported and grown. None of them say they are organic. Onions are from Holland for half of the year. Every word here is Gospel. I wanted to say other things but was unsure of them, so I did not. There is nobody monitoring farms that claim to be Organic. We have had a Gringo who claimed to have an organic farm get caught buying his product at the Mercado. He sold a lot on Facebook to Gringos.
If the people are coming to the United States they would probably be better off coming to California. California just moved the minimum wage up to 20 dollars an hour. That's for entry level employment which is crazy!
California minimum wage is still $16/hr which given the cost of living in California doesn't make it a good deal typically. That's of just four weeks ago, that's the new minimum wage. Much of the US makes this claim that Cali has a super high minimum wage, but it's fake news that is spread often. But a bigger problem is that immigrants rarely can earn minimum wage so it's a moot point when they get no benefits and only make $9/hr.
Do you know of any Govt program for Nicaraguans to give them land grants? Ex. Years ago, you could get sizable land grants from Alaska for citizens willing to develop the land. Any such program there since people are leaving the country in bigger numbers?
No, it's not like Alaska where the government bought it and had this massive amount of empty federal land with nothing to do with it. Nicaragua is old, much older than even the continental US, for land ownership with even colonial cities hitting the 500 year mark this year and the countrysides are older still. So truly "empty space" to give away doesn't exist, every inch of the country is spoken for (which isn't unusual.) People who leave the country don't lose their property. If you leave the country and owned some land or a house, that's still yours (same as anywhere.) Since land seizure is super hard in Nicaragua compared places like the US (you can lose land from acts of treason, but not from lack of tax payments or abandonment) it's not like the government can just take unused land and hand it out. Not that you can do that easily in teh US either, but there IS a system for it kind of. If they COULD do that, wow, we'd have San Juan del Sur turned into a huge economic powerhouse overnight. There are thousands of lots that were purchased by foreigners and completely abandoned and quite often taxes not paid (but certainly that's case by case.) But still, under the law that's all forced to stay abandoned. I'm actually of the opinion that land seizure is too hard to do in Nicaragua. Too easy in the US, too hard in Nicaragua. There is a happy medium somewhere. But Nicaragua is always accused of land seizures, whereas the international community ignores when the US does this (I and other viewers have had it happen to us in the US and it's just... business as usual.) So they are super cautious about that as even really good, appropriate redistribution for the good of the country would be jump on as a marketing tool by other countries. So they are kind of stuck.
Borough reply. See you in March. May need your help with Atty. referral. I started home I. Villas de Santa Martha in 2016. Been unable to return till now. Builder sold it again to someone else in 2018. Moved to El salvador. Dad still there in area. Need legal help???
oh, what we need a free trade zone like the ECC, rather than the EU. The Euro area has several overlapping concepts that NEARLY match jurisdictions. The big economic impact zone is the ECC, and yes, absolutely, having free trade between the CA4 (and getting CR into the mix) would be an insanely huge boost. @@francarranza434
But unlike Europe, the CA region has to deal with being under America's thumb and it is used as a zone to do what the US doesn't want to do on its own soil and it's so big and powerful that it's all but impossible to do European like things here. Europe has a massive population and military and while the US can "nudge" it, it can't control it, nor can anyone else. CA is tiny even compared to Mexico or Colombia, let alone the US. So while they are sovereign states, their economies are literally and almost entirely, at the mercy of the US. There's no need for an ECC like zone here... if the US just didn't punish the region for being hispanic, that alone would do it. Back before US intervention, the region was incredibly rich.
I'm really confused by your belief that America is arguing whether there should "actually be any democracy at all." I have not heard that argument anywhere from any side - and I am fairly deep into American politics. I have not seen anyone advocate for getting rid of voting, even those participating in J6. There are just a lot (and I mean a lot) of people that no longer have any faith in the election system. You can believe they are wrong and that is silly, but those are their legitimate beliefs. 2020 had LOTS of things wrong with it's election. There was an entire Time magazine cover story bragging about how the media was able to "rig" it. States violated their own constitutions and allowed people to vote for months before election day by mail. You can have a lot of serious issues with an election without evidence of ballot fraud. Also, J6 was a riot. Not an insurrection. To believe it was an insurrection you'd have to believe that most of the people there, who own guns, just forgot to bring them. And no one has actually been charged with insurrection either. No one believes they can "overthrow a government" without guns. It's absurd concept. Additionally, the millions coming to the border tight now is because of a major loophole. Everyone is trained by NGO's to say the magic words at the border (asylum) and they are let in to wait for their court date they will never show up for. When remain in Mexico was enforced (remaining in Mexico until their assylum hearing) most just didn't come, because they knew the asylum claim was a lie that would likely be found out at their hearing. So they commit crime when they cross the border and they commit crime when they lie and try to claim assylum (most of them). On another note, I am glad you brought up the Obamacare thing. I think you might be alluding to the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act. Which, for all intents and purposes, allows propaganda created for foreign countries to also be disseminated to US Citizens. So you are right, you can't trust the US Government about anything.
Well, saying that those are their legitimate beliefs is a stretch. I don't believe that a single one of those people believed the election was rigged, that's a lie they say because you aren't supposed to point out people lying in American culture and how can you prove that they are or aren't lying. But to assume that that is the truth is a total stretch, it's so implausible - when even every single person involved in the fraud had admitted it was a scam, and they had lost the previous election (the US doesn't use democracy, so the presidency was legitimate, but the election was lost as the system is supposed to do.) Every single person who was involved in the J6 did so for the purpose of dismantling democracy, that was the one and only purpose of that - to disregard the outcome of an election. That was the singular motivation. And every single defendent of it today does so to attack democracy. The concept that such an insurrection could ever be excused, even a single person's participation being acceptable, means a judge has to be dismantling democracy. A riot can be insurrection, and J6 cannot be anything but insurrection. That's what insurrection is... a riot against the country. No matter what beliefs they claim to believe in, the one thing that every one of those people and everyone who potentially supports that action believes - is that the election results in the US should not be honoured. Right or wrong, one side or the other, good or bad - those things are separate. But rioting with the purpose of fundamentally ignoring the democractic process when it doesn't produce the outcome that you want - that's about the best definition of insurrection one can imagine.
Yeah, those that are staying put are consistently way happier. The only problem is the "grass is greener" and until they go and learn that the US isn't what they imagine, they tend to be stuck imagining this fanciful existence in the north that isn't reality. But that impression is difficult to overcome.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog That's true. I just don't like the idea of being the gringo in a state which could collapse and you are seen as the cause. No matter what happens, you are always the outsider due to tribal mindsets. Heck, I was born overseas in Europe, but even I don't fit the tribal mindset and therefore be a target in a collapse.
Because we call it the fourth world for a reason. It's uniquely American to think that having a large sum of income, but less freedom, lower quality of life is automatically better. There is a reason that the third world is full of Americans who escaped once they learned how much better life can be. The very idea that the "third world" is a negative term requires a completely lost mindset. To the entire world being "third world" would never imply something bad.
You’re the Tony Robbins of Nicaragua.
Seriously, you’re in a position to help people improve their lives by moving to Nicaragua and have fun doing it.
So sad that people still see the United States as the promised country. It hasn't been for a while, but seems to stick. Yes you can make it on the US, but many don't. 🤔
I have 3 Nicaraguans living with me in the USA. All nephews who moved here for the two year parole option (I'm their sponsor). Two of the three are here just to make a bunch of money for investments in businesses and farms in Nicaragua -so they ca set up a middle class Nicaraguan life. One wants to stay in the USA, but it may not be possible, particularly with the likely change in administrations next year.
Habe you ever talked to the government about your ideas ? Would they listen ? Wouid yhey feel threatened? I think many Americans are scared to invest time, assets etc because of fear of getting property taken
Well, I'd like to think that I'm a big deal and can just call up people who matter ;) However, in reality, the government watches my videos daily, as does the US government. Being the most prominant English language vlogger in a country might not be a big deal, but it does warrant "paying attention" so by the time you've me saying "here's an idea", both the US and Nicaragua have seen it too. Not by someone super important (no offense RUclips monitor dude that is reading this) BUT, in theory, by someone that could pass it on to someone. So, in a sense, by putting it here, I kind of am telling them about it.
My "My Ideas on the Future of Nicaragua" video was definitely intended to be seen, just in case someone needs some ideas.
The government here would definitely not find my videos threatening. I'm super supportive of the people and economy of Nicaragua and the government here is focused on doing good for the people. So while they might not listen or agree with my ideas, they wouldn't be threatened by someone hoping to make a difference in the same way.
Many Americans ARE scared of having property taken. But there is nothing Nicaragua can do about a false fear. That fear is caused by the assumption that other countries can just take property the way that the US does mixed with fake news in the US claiming that it happens combined with a history of that happening, under US rule, in Nicaragua in the past. The US typically points to they themselves stealing property, in Nicaragua, and saying "see people can steal your land" ignoring the fact that they themselves were the ones who stole it and without anyone's permission. A bit like going to someone else's neighborhood, claiming it's a dangerous place, and then stabbing someone yourself to make the point.
Is Nicaragua done taking back land that the US stole from them or is that still ongoing ?
Seems like it could be a real quagmire
Short answer: Nicaragua is under the worst dictatorship of it's history, period. There is nothing funny of the fact that we nicaraguans are under repression, just go out and look on every important roundabout are filled with heavy armed "national" police. We can't complain, literally. Thats all I will say, thanks for liking Nicaragua. I like your videos.
I'm from the US. I've never seen any police anywhere in Nicaragua that qualifies as heavily armed. Many are not armed at all. Police in roundabouts is about the least oppressive place a cop could be. Lightly armed or unarmed police occassionally standing around to guard monuments - you've just defined the least repressed situation on the planet. By comparison, the US has truly heavily armed police on the street with M16s and body armour, right in the middle of pedestrian areas (they are repressing anyone, they are just honestly defending important buildings and such.) Or in Italy, the monuments in Italy aren't just guarded by police by my caribinari - literally infantry units with heavy weapons.
Nicaragua's degree of freedom and lack of police presence is so strong that I think most Nicaraguans have no idea what the rest of the world is like and feel that just by having police it feels like a lot. But it's nothing compared to El Salvador, the US, Germany, Italy, etc. Not that those places are bad. It's just that barely armed police hanging out by monuments where people don't go (it's in the middle of traffic) to keep monuments from being defaced is literally the farthest thing from being repressed you could describe.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog so sad that you take that position, only we nicaraguans know what we're going through. One thing is what foreigners see and other is what we nicas live. Nicaragua won Miss Universe, and the "government" forbids any kind of celebration, is that normal? Well there's very little that we can do about it, feeling very hopeless. Have a nice day Scott.
Really like the segment that talks about the perception that people have of everyone is wealthy and life is easy in the states. Some people prosper, but the journey of getting here is just the tip of the iceberg.
Why is Central America divided up in so many tiny countries with problems like crime, revolt and poor economic success? This should be a tropical paradise with booming economies. Somehow I would think it could be the fault of the USA either due to interference or neglect. The USA came up with the Monroe Doctrine and then did little to advance the area beyond the Panama canal.
Well you'd have to divide up the question. For example "why is it divided up into so many small countries" is a very different background than "why is there such limited economic success." And the issues are not universal. Some of the countries have crime. Some are struggling economically (none are booming, but Guatemala doesn't FEEL poor at all when you are there, for example.) Some don't have revolt (but DO have US backed attempts to overthrow them - but that's like calling an invasion a revolt, it's external vs internal, but portrayed in the media as internal to distance the US from its interventions.)
Scott love your story today, I am an aircraft mechanic here in Canada and I have always said to my wife "How come I never see an aircraft mechanic living in these houses in the movies?" LOL
IKR? It's such unreal expectations. It makes everyone feel like a failure.
Hey Scott, off topic question. I've been researching Countries, trying to find ones who use less chemical treatment on their food. There was a thread going in one Nicaragua Facebook group, and the opinions were very split. Some even said Nicaragua has been MonSantos playground. What are your thoughts?
GMO products are illegal in Nicaragua. Even the USDA lists this as anyone using GMO sources can't ship to Nicaragua with limited exceptions of end products not intended for human consumption. GMO seeds are illegal. Planting GMO crops is illegal. The US is all in on GMO, no american company would want to use a country that would consider holding them accountable for health issues to test when they have the larger US market where they can test on humans with impunity.
great question @raindances3310, @ScottAlanMillerVlog what about pesticides?
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog I'm glad you cleared that up for me! Nicaragua is back on the list!
I have a farm in Nicaragua. There is no demand for organic products in Nicaragua, so to raise organic products, you have to sell them for more. People here take whatever they grow to the Mercado and sell it. They get no premium for organic. The premium is paid by how large and pristine the product looks.
Very few people till soil anymore, which is required to plant organically. The planting season begins with a coating of some generic version of Roundup. I was taught by a Nicaraguan man in his 80s how to raise crops here. He believes that tilling reduces your productivity, and he is correct. Few people have a tractor. If you are mechanically removing weeds, that usually means renting a rich person's services, which costs more than RoundUp. If not, it means making a plow from branches and pulling it with a horse. Enough Roundup to do 10 acres costs about 5 bucks.
During a bad insect season, you apply Ciprometrina to your crops every four days. Some years, you don't need so much.
Ciprometrina ingredients look like they would qualify as organic, but do your own evaluation. There are GMO-free regions in Nicaragua, such as Rivas. That leads me to believe there are non-GMO-free regions. Only one brand and one variety of seeds are available for each grain crop in my departamento. It is not marked with the breed. Nobody I know saves seeds for grains. Not even 2-acre family farms. They buy the seeds coated with a blue powder. It just says that it is antifungal and antipest on the outside. Grains, including rice and beans, are imported and grown. None of them say they are organic. Onions are from Holland for half of the year.
Every word here is Gospel. I wanted to say other things but was unsure of them, so I did not. There is nobody monitoring farms that claim to be Organic. We have had a Gringo who claimed to have an organic farm get caught buying his product at the Mercado. He sold a lot on Facebook to Gringos.
If the people are coming to the United States they would probably be better off coming to California. California just moved the minimum wage up to 20 dollars an hour. That's for entry level employment which is crazy!
California minimum wage is still $16/hr which given the cost of living in California doesn't make it a good deal typically. That's of just four weeks ago, that's the new minimum wage. Much of the US makes this claim that Cali has a super high minimum wage, but it's fake news that is spread often.
But a bigger problem is that immigrants rarely can earn minimum wage so it's a moot point when they get no benefits and only make $9/hr.
Do you know of any Govt program for Nicaraguans to give them land grants? Ex. Years ago, you could get sizable land grants from Alaska for citizens willing to develop the land. Any such program there since people are leaving the country in bigger numbers?
No, it's not like Alaska where the government bought it and had this massive amount of empty federal land with nothing to do with it. Nicaragua is old, much older than even the continental US, for land ownership with even colonial cities hitting the 500 year mark this year and the countrysides are older still. So truly "empty space" to give away doesn't exist, every inch of the country is spoken for (which isn't unusual.) People who leave the country don't lose their property. If you leave the country and owned some land or a house, that's still yours (same as anywhere.) Since land seizure is super hard in Nicaragua compared places like the US (you can lose land from acts of treason, but not from lack of tax payments or abandonment) it's not like the government can just take unused land and hand it out. Not that you can do that easily in teh US either, but there IS a system for it kind of. If they COULD do that, wow, we'd have San Juan del Sur turned into a huge economic powerhouse overnight. There are thousands of lots that were purchased by foreigners and completely abandoned and quite often taxes not paid (but certainly that's case by case.) But still, under the law that's all forced to stay abandoned.
I'm actually of the opinion that land seizure is too hard to do in Nicaragua. Too easy in the US, too hard in Nicaragua. There is a happy medium somewhere. But Nicaragua is always accused of land seizures, whereas the international community ignores when the US does this (I and other viewers have had it happen to us in the US and it's just... business as usual.) So they are super cautious about that as even really good, appropriate redistribution for the good of the country would be jump on as a marketing tool by other countries. So they are kind of stuck.
Borough reply. See you in March. May need your help with Atty. referral. I started home I. Villas de Santa Martha in 2016. Been unable to return till now. Builder sold it again to someone else in 2018. Moved to El salvador. Dad still there in area. Need legal help???
All Central America should be united. Like Europe. Immigration wouldn’t be a problem.
All of it but Costa Rica has long been united. We're called the CA4. How does that change immigration.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog stronger economy.
oh, what we need a free trade zone like the ECC, rather than the EU. The Euro area has several overlapping concepts that NEARLY match jurisdictions. The big economic impact zone is the ECC, and yes, absolutely, having free trade between the CA4 (and getting CR into the mix) would be an insanely huge boost. @@francarranza434
But unlike Europe, the CA region has to deal with being under America's thumb and it is used as a zone to do what the US doesn't want to do on its own soil and it's so big and powerful that it's all but impossible to do European like things here. Europe has a massive population and military and while the US can "nudge" it, it can't control it, nor can anyone else. CA is tiny even compared to Mexico or Colombia, let alone the US. So while they are sovereign states, their economies are literally and almost entirely, at the mercy of the US. There's no need for an ECC like zone here... if the US just didn't punish the region for being hispanic, that alone would do it. Back before US intervention, the region was incredibly rich.
How do I contact you directly? Email? thanks
It's in the show comments.
I'm really confused by your belief that America is arguing whether there should "actually be any democracy at all." I have not heard that argument anywhere from any side - and I am fairly deep into American politics. I have not seen anyone advocate for getting rid of voting, even those participating in J6. There are just a lot (and I mean a lot) of people that no longer have any faith in the election system. You can believe they are wrong and that is silly, but those are their legitimate beliefs. 2020 had LOTS of things wrong with it's election. There was an entire Time magazine cover story bragging about how the media was able to "rig" it. States violated their own constitutions and allowed people to vote for months before election day by mail. You can have a lot of serious issues with an election without evidence of ballot fraud.
Also, J6 was a riot. Not an insurrection. To believe it was an insurrection you'd have to believe that most of the people there, who own guns, just forgot to bring them. And no one has actually been charged with insurrection either. No one believes they can "overthrow a government" without guns. It's absurd concept.
Additionally, the millions coming to the border tight now is because of a major loophole. Everyone is trained by NGO's to say the magic words at the border (asylum) and they are let in to wait for their court date they will never show up for. When remain in Mexico was enforced (remaining in Mexico until their assylum hearing) most just didn't come, because they knew the asylum claim was a lie that would likely be found out at their hearing. So they commit crime when they cross the border and they commit crime when they lie and try to claim assylum (most of them).
On another note, I am glad you brought up the Obamacare thing. I think you might be alluding to the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act. Which, for all intents and purposes, allows propaganda created for foreign countries to also be disseminated to US Citizens. So you are right, you can't trust the US Government about anything.
Well, saying that those are their legitimate beliefs is a stretch. I don't believe that a single one of those people believed the election was rigged, that's a lie they say because you aren't supposed to point out people lying in American culture and how can you prove that they are or aren't lying. But to assume that that is the truth is a total stretch, it's so implausible - when even every single person involved in the fraud had admitted it was a scam, and they had lost the previous election (the US doesn't use democracy, so the presidency was legitimate, but the election was lost as the system is supposed to do.)
Every single person who was involved in the J6 did so for the purpose of dismantling democracy, that was the one and only purpose of that - to disregard the outcome of an election. That was the singular motivation. And every single defendent of it today does so to attack democracy. The concept that such an insurrection could ever be excused, even a single person's participation being acceptable, means a judge has to be dismantling democracy.
A riot can be insurrection, and J6 cannot be anything but insurrection. That's what insurrection is... a riot against the country. No matter what beliefs they claim to believe in, the one thing that every one of those people and everyone who potentially supports that action believes - is that the election results in the US should not be honoured. Right or wrong, one side or the other, good or bad - those things are separate. But rioting with the purpose of fundamentally ignoring the democractic process when it doesn't produce the outcome that you want - that's about the best definition of insurrection one can imagine.
Yeah, no thanks.
Yeah, those that are staying put are consistently way happier. The only problem is the "grass is greener" and until they go and learn that the US isn't what they imagine, they tend to be stuck imagining this fanciful existence in the north that isn't reality. But that impression is difficult to overcome.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog That's true. I just don't like the idea of being the gringo in a state which could collapse and you are seen as the cause. No matter what happens, you are always the outsider due to tribal mindsets. Heck, I was born overseas in Europe, but even I don't fit the tribal mindset and therefore be a target in a collapse.
Why wouldn't anybody in a third world country leave for Amerika?
Because we call it the fourth world for a reason. It's uniquely American to think that having a large sum of income, but less freedom, lower quality of life is automatically better. There is a reason that the third world is full of Americans who escaped once they learned how much better life can be.
The very idea that the "third world" is a negative term requires a completely lost mindset. To the entire world being "third world" would never imply something bad.
Leaving their family. Most are going to Costa Rica.