April 5, 2025

42 thoughts on “10 Reasons You Didn’t See This Coming – Konstantin Kisin

  1. My parents and I are naturalized citizens of the USA. We came here legally, claiming political asylum from a communist country. We've lived in the US for over 50 years.
    With a resounding "YES," America is a nation that welcomes and helps each other. We know this firsthand. We came to the country with nothing but the clothes on our backs and a small bag of personal belongings. Communities of people helped my parents get jobs, drove us to doctor's appointments, dealt with greedy landlords who cut off our heating in the middle of winter, etc. That's the America we know.

    And yes, we voted for Trump, three times!

  2. Well I am pretty sure the reason why European and English folks pay close attention to what leadership candidates say is because the last war the leader of major European power actually carried out his promises to annihilate multiple ethnic groups and categories of people across Europeâ€Ļ

  3. American here: Liberal views from the past and I would say the conservative message of today are what Americans stand for. A lot of people get opportunities here, and sadly don’t celebrate them because of the victim mentality we have allowed the youth to grab hold of. Resilience, self-worth, work and moral ethics – this is America.

  4. Might add a small correction. 10 reasons that "democrats" didn't see this coming. After 8 years of Obama, people said enough and put Trump in office. Four years of Biden and people put Trump back in office. And the democrats still will not admit that it is not some sector of voters fault, it's their policy platform and ideology.

  5. I'm afraid that 11th. reason is that americans are horrendous hypocrats who rather vote for insane egomaniac promissing and stating absolute nonsenses instead of admitting themselves that their politics in general got failed into ideologically blind corridor and therefore from perspective of common sense, sanity and wisdom they have in fact nobody to vote at all… Let me put it this way…How insane someone must be taking Trump as an ideal character becoming responsible for leading nation consisting of over 300 million people? Do you perceive that from perspective of situation the USA got into such choice makes absolutely no sense? Whole world was ironic towards UK for Brexit, right? But Brexit compared to what americans just did was only mismatch in uderstanding EU membership…. I don't think that Harris would be much better opiton but Voting for trump means mismatching purpose of humanity in its core principle….

  6. As and American I think Kisin is half right and half wrong. Especially wrong telling is his saying that in America anyone can become rich. That's an impossibility, especially when the rich are mega-billionaires or even a trillionaire. If Americans really believe that then they've been sold a bill of goods in order to stay in their place and not complain. People getting that rich only occurs at the expense of the rest of society and good governance.

  7. I would push back on the below & offer some anecdotal points of my own context. But the rest I’d say is fairly spot on with some nuance here and there!

    >> Americans support meritocracy for the most part but that DOES NOT equate to them not hating rich people. There’s a limit. Celebrities, no matter how wealthy, the Left loves them. CEOs that are in the public eye and even somewhat rich, the Left hates them, especially the mega rich like Elon/Bezos. The Right don’t necessarily dislike the wealthy but they have more contempt for “elitists” no matter how wealthy they are and for celebs that are too far Left.

    >> While America is the best place on Earth for Jews to live, outside of Israel, I wouldn’t call it the most philosemitic. I think there are deep roots of contempt on both the Left & Right that have made their way into our culture years ago and still thrive. And this war just brought it more to the surface, especially on the Left most recently. But all the Jewish conspiracies from rappers over the years that nobody cares to call out, or young kids calling each other “Jew” for being too stingy with money or sharing (or using worse slurs), or even Farrakhan being outwardly antisemitic or the NOI pushing ever so slightly into downgrading the Jewish people and their faith. The fact that I think it was Van Jones even admitted recently that the antisemitic rot goes deep in the Democratic Party, that doesn’t just happen overnight.

  8. 3:30 3:32 i am surprised anyone not from the middle is America understand us as well as you do.
    I would add this, here in Oklahoma, before we became a state in 1907, when a group of bad men would start causing trouble in a town and the law couldn't handle it the towns people would come together and solve the problem. Usually by filling up boot hill. My grandfather (born in 1917) would tell me the stories his dad and grandad would tell him of exactly this happening.
    I say all this to tell you and the world, we solve our own problems.

  9. My wife is Korean. She came here legally. Then a few years later her family was able to follow legally. When I go to the movies I don't like it when someone cuts into the line in front of me. It's not fail. Same with immigration.

  10. 40yr old Jewish-American refugee from the former USSR here. I'm extremely proud of my home nation, and my favorite holiday will always be the 4th of July. This list is highly accurate.

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