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What I do that is unique and what no one else that I can see does is to understand perspectives and mindsets. It is one thing thing to see how a person arranges the deck chairs in their mind and quite another to be able to comprehend the collective mindset. It is a difficult conceptual concept to convey. The best I can do is to say that it is like seeing an image in a mirror that is reflected off of another mirror. A hall of mirrors in effect. It is like threading the eye of the needle to grasp the mindset.

The American mindset based on experience since the end of WW2 has been one of unprecedented prosperity and opportunity. The Americans of today do not know anything different and as such have forgotten what it like to suffer privation and hunger. They can not conceive of anything else and live accordingly. The American experience in the past has been one of a can do nation that can pull itself up by it's bootstraps in a crisis. That was then and this is now for the difference is that in the past the American mindset was of a pragmatic nature born of understanding hardships and privation. The American people while having the same potential as before have a different mindset. One where even losers get Trophy's. No one not only thinks that they have to suffer a hardship let alone having to bite the bullet and suffer one.

People's perspectives in general don't see beyond nor think that the world is anything different than their own perceptions which are based upon their own experiences or narratives. "They are bitterly clinging to their guns and religion." "It is a shame that 48M Americans don't have HC in a rich nation like America." "They didn't earn it by themselves." The moment that GW came on TV in 08 the illusion of American prosperity and invincibility cracked. "Omg how could America be having a meltdown crisis." "How could that ever have happened?" The propensity is to blame the other side as being causation instead of seeing beyond that to the reality that it is the collective mindset based upon a faulty perceptional mindset of what reality is.

America in 1980 had a soul searching come to Jesus moment where it chose to go with the paving over of economic realities with Reagan's "New Morning In America." The solution to the American economic ills was to put it on the credit card. That allowed America to continue with the perceptional mindset that America is a invincible and prosperous nation. The end of the Reagan illusion came in 08 when reality gob smacked America and the world in the face. Since 08 the operational reality is that it is a new normal, (where all the kings horses and men could not put poor Humpty Dumpty back together again). While the American mindset is still in denial of that reality by creating the mother of all bubbles a SOVEREIGN DEBT BUBBLE. This is perceptional mindset is leading like the lemmings to a cliff of a catastrophic failure.

So while the numbers do tell a tale, it is the operational mindset of Americans in general that is the rational of my being pessimistic.