How contagious is stupidity? What is the difference between newly arrived first generation Americans and other Americans? Is it possible that newly arrived American with shorter citizenship tenures see better and farther?

I used to be amazed as a newly (and legally) arrived American that Henry Kissinger’s English was so rough – mine was better, I thought, although I was wrong. In either case I failed to see how a German born person can be so prominent in the United States government. It took me all these decades to realize that most of American born Americans have a very narrow, usually warped, limited and inaccurate view of the world, even a view on their own country.
Many of us (first generation Americans) came here from somewhere else. Odds are that many of us experienced the dictatorship of Nicaragua’s Somoza, Chile’s Pinochet, Russia’s Brezhnev, Poland’s Jaruzelski, Yugoslavia’s Tito (I think it’s only fair to stop here, before I plow into China’s Mao, and many other power hungry deviants who ruled some country small or large) or some other power hungry tyrant. We all have that experience deep in our bones. We may not have had great many freedoms, but we sure as Hell know what lack of freedom feels like.
The “other” (more native) Americans, or majority of people born in the United States (all generalities aside), happen to be rather poorly educated, brain-washed to a very large extent, rely on the (well poisoned) media more than any other nation on Earth, maintain their narrow minded views without being able to see the forest from the tree – and worst of all: TAKE THEIR FREEDOMS FOR GRANTED. I don’t really blame them, they never experienced lack of freedoms and sever restrictions that many of escaped, so that impinging on a few “minor” freedoms doesn’t bother them.
In synthesis, the newly “Americanized” portion of “E Pluribus Unum”, have a keen sense of something being askew (wrong, dishonest, unfair), and react more vocally. They have, not only the first hand experience in oppression and various other amputated freedoms, they can smell them coming a long way off. Even the modest encroachments on our liberties are voiced most vocally exactly among the “newly minted Americans” – I should know – I am one of them too. We (the “newly minted Americans”) have all gone through various gymnastics and acrobatics to gain lawful citizenship, spent years working at God-awful jobs that nobody else would take, we were all interviewed by other “earlier minted Americans” during our naturalization process – many of us with third degree burns and bitter disappointments. Now these early disappointments are nothing compared to loss of greater freedoms that we can witness nowadays. Any form of dissent is considered “anti-American” – which is probably the greatest perversion of the American way of life – we all subscribe to. Our common country (the United States of America) has virtually no opposition, no matter what party is in power, continues to overtly lie to the people, has an absolute control over the media and operates outside of the frame imposed by our Constitution – while we do nothing. Bailouts? Crisis? Housing market? Economy? Banking? Wars? Unemployment? What exact part of our Constitution allows for any of that? Where are the “checks and balances” that our Congress is supposed to watch for, question and control? Too many questions – too few answers.

If anybody doubts the degree of oppression, only only needs to take a look at www.american-pictures.com/english/racism/oppression.htm

Even in oppression as a subject we lead the way (not that I am particularly proud of it).

The winter of our discontent starts with modest thoughts that we hold more dear than our “other” fellow Americans, since we strongly believe:

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” – Edumnd Burke

“WARRE is not fought in BATTEL alone” – Thomas Hobbes

“Dissent is the noblest form of patriotism” - Jefferson, Tom Paine or Howard Zinn

“A patriot must always be prepared to defend his country against his government” – Edward Abbey

“I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.” – Voltaire

I would be hard pressed to find many American born Americans who hold the above beliefs near and dear to their hearts.

Therein is the rub.