Viewing peaked, Sept. 24, at over 7000. Normal viewing is 300-400 or less, daily.
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Germany
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Canada
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This suggests to me that in Chinese trading areas there is a strong desire to understand opinion in the U.S. So, for myself, retired, reached 80 years old this September. College educated, not affluent, retired. Populist progressive in outlook, politically supporting Bernie and AOC, no love for Schumer, some respect for Pelosi as cagey, not much liking for her otherwise. Dislike for Republicans, generically, they've earned disdain, particularly Emmer, my Rep. and other senior committee GOP members of the House. Never really found a career that sang to me. Got by.
That demographic, having lived the 50s and greatly, negatively impacted by Vietnam War at college undergraduate age, from then on cynical, it is a viewpoint readers deserve to know of even if readership outside of the U.S. declines on learning regular citizenship status, not particularly active in politics, but highly concerned with how the nation runs itself, and worldwide relationships and transitions the nation faces.
As a sign of a part of a citizenship outlook that others should consider, readers are welcome. But giving detail to avoid any misperceptions. An educated older resident of the US of A. Highly opinionated, with a Chemistry BA degree, Law School, JD.
Not singing any membership tune as much as an independent thinking the Democratic Party could be better, the Republicans hopeless - but alliances changing with JD Vance the key example, about whom I have great uncertainty.
That's the story. May Harris win, thinking her sane and intelligent enough to pick decent, establishment players for her government, if she wins.
Straight. No children. Not considering this election as "existential" as some say, and disliking Trump greatly as intentionally crass and divisive while crediting him for not starting any new war and putting Afghanistan long-term occupancy in a state where Biden was constrained to end it. Otherwise, four dead years and too pro-Israel to where he made mistakes. Okay with immigration but feeling if there was any sincere desire to change it the answer is to step hard on those exploiting cheap immigrant labor in large numbers. Farmers need labor, and it does not pay, and aging demographics and birth rates among citizens show a need for labor mobility.
Globalization is thought inevitable, China seems too mercantilistic and needs to lessen its aggressiveness that way, global growth rates matter, nobody seems intent to have a nuclear war ending the world as we know it, and that is a good thing.
People worldwide will need to adapt to lessened labor need in commerce as automation grows, and those who say their identities rest with their work may need to adapt to more leisure and how to adjust to it.
Commerce at best is with consumer goods always a priority to make people's lives better, so consumers worldwide will need to have money enough to purchase stuff, and how that works out in detail is a "today challenge" to work out. If commerce were to shrink to capital goods production being a main pivotal concern, who'd buy, commerce would shrink and people's lives would be harder with citizen unrest in most nations rising.
That is the major peacetime trick the world's nations need to resolve in a global trade situation, so there must be multi-nation balance without nations such as China being too mercantilisticly aggressive. Due restraint in growing would benefit everybody else, but it is hard to sell that as long-term best to the Chinese. They want things to person-person balances world wide toward a better balance for them, thinking things may be moving too slowly that way. There is truth to that, but a JD Vance if in leadership would want to slow things in favor of U.S. resident citizens, and the growth rates between nations will continue to be a friction in co-existence without war.
Writing all that will help international readers of the blog to understand detailed posts here in context. It surprises me that U.S. readership is relatively less than I'd expect. And Norway? That seems an outlier data point, whereas Chinese intent to learn as much about how Americans think makes more sense. Not that Norwegians are non-curious, just, a data point that surprises me.
UPDATE: White, unmarried, father emigrated from Germany during hyperinflation there between the wars.. Neither parent graduated high school,
Ferguson, MO, resident through undergraduate days. Not going back there ever. One older sibling, sister, three years older. Lacking language skills beyond native English. Regretful over that. Foreign language education during childhood was lacking. Public schooling, through high school. Scored well consistently on standardized testing, reaching the belief one test correlated well with others, but worth little in predicting career directions, success or earning potential.
Not a driven personality. Hoping to see 2050 to learn what's changed by then.