European culture

Forunately for the United States the Europeans who came to the northern part of this continent were the individualistic and enterprising type, rebellious and distrustful of authority, they were true visionaries who saw a society that had never existed before. As many of those arrivng were fleeing from something as much as going to something but somehow they managed to form a democratic republic. Political corruption and human greed conspired against them but as the years turned to centuries they prevailed. Only in countries with similar personal freedoms can a person with nothing reach almost limitless heights. Thanks to the now denigrated "old dead white guys", we have opportunities afforded in few other places in the world. Why do the Mexicans risk their lives to come here? Their own country is corrupt and repressive. If you are not born into the right economic class, you have very little chance of advancing. Mexico was also conquered by the Europeans but these Europeans primarily came from Spain and Portugal and even after eventually securing their independence they did not have the good fortune to adopt a form of government which would provide for individual rights and freedoms and checks and balances to insure these freedoms and rights. As decades and centuries passed, Mexico became a land of super wealthy aristocrats with land grants from Spain and a huge poplulation of peasants. The only real middle class were the funtionaries and military there to protect the rich and control the poor. The U.S., due to its' government system allowing so much freedom evolved into a country with a huge middle class. The huge middle class is and always has been our strength. Someday, soon I hope, government will get out of the way and free the people with entprenaurial skills and ingenuity to again create a huge middle class. Probably not gonna' happen.