The Amish are Christians, but their take on Christianity is about natural living and not chasing materialism.
So they don't seek riches in this world the way so many Christians do.
Not just religion, there are non religious people who aren't into chasing material wealth, though America as a whole has place material wealth as the number on goal for the Jones's to keep up with...
However the person came to their wealth and influence, either through their own hard work from humble beginnings, or by inheritance, or by favors because of where they graduated, or because of their ethnicity or religion...
There is no doubt that those who have wealth and power to influence government do so as much as possible.
Some will argue that because they have more money and influence, they have the right to use it to shape policy, this is sort of a "Law of the jungle" or a "Might makes right" argument...
Others argue that a small group of people have undue influence on our government.
I view the latter argument as American and towards the real goal of the early Americans who were trying to escape the monarchy mentality of England...
When one person's vote isn't worth as much as the next guy, because the next guy can influence politicians and shape policy through their wealth and power...then it isn't either a democracy, nor a representative democracy...
It is an oligarchy...
There really is no way that a mere 2% of a population should have as much influence as we see, not if the goal is to have genuine democracy...
Real public servants would shun the oligarchy model which is what we have in play in America...
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This is a controversial yet interesting topic. One of the greatest lies today is the egalitarian myth that, "we are all basically the same" and that race is a social construct.
We are not the same. Absolutely mammoth, huge quantities of factual evidence (largely downplayed and ignored in the MSM for fear of the impact such knowledge would have on the great unwashed masses) have proved without a shadow of a doubt that real, actual differences exist between peoples who followed different evolutionary paths in different parts of the world. Not minor differences, but major differences that do and will continue to impact career choices, opportunities, and real world success of every person alive.
Jews specialized in "urban" professions when most peoples genetic stock was still in farming or in the case of Africa hunting and gathering. Jews today operate with both the blessing and curse of their genetic and cultural heritage. These include an elevated IQ, A group solidarity survival strategy, and an ethical system that is to a large part mercenary in nature towards those who are not a part of the tribe.
Unlike the most of the other elite peoples, Jews do not have a huge, teaming underclass that they are lumped together with in demographic studies. Yes, the are dumb lower class Jews, but there are relatively few of them, and I would bet that these are often the ones who lose their âJewishâ identity because they do not fit into the dominant Jewish higherarchy or values or culture very well.
For whites it is different. You can be a fat, ignorant, Low IQ, pathetic excuse for a human being, but you can never lose your white identity.
If we could kick all these people out of the white race, our genetic stock would rise over time as well. Think about how this plays out over generations and it becomes easier to see how groups separate and attain different adaptive traits.
Aside from genetics, I agree with the comments on religion. Religion is like software programming for humans. Those that suffer from defective religions will have their success in the hear and now real world limited to the extent they are exposed to/believe them.
