Wouldn't you know? America's Inferiority Complex Drives its Hubris

Trump and his minions suffer from an inferiority complex towards most other cultures, particularly European cultures. They wouldn't admit it, but it is precisely this deep-seated sense inadequacy and cultural mediocrity compared to Europeans that drives their current program of meting out revenge against these freeloading but "culturally superior" Europeans. Which explains the bursts of Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth and others when addressing the European political class in recent weeks.

The depth of the sudden eruptions by this bellicose American "neo-elite" (that also rails against another more traditional domestic elite) reveals the depth of its own sense of inferiority. They feel exhilarated at punishing those culturally superior Europeans, as if to prove to their midwestern-peasant and southern-primitive voters that you can be an inbred, underdeveloped Appalachian redneck and still feel relevant by scoring retribution points and vociferously expressing your pent-up feelings of inadequacy vis-a-vis those you perceive as superior to you.

After all, the bedrock of American society and culture is a founding stock of poor, backward and ultra-religious English peasantry which slowly was reinforced by all the immigrants from the most backward of European boonie peasantry. People who are doing well do not usually emigrate; only those from poor uneducated backgrounds fled to America, and they took with them their primitive village traditions and beliefs and their hatred of the upper ruling elites. These beliefs and traditions remain etched in the watermark of every American individual, including the feeling of being inferior to those he left behind in the Old World.

Besides the fact that the bulk of America's technological superiority comes from foreign-born immigrants and not from US-born Americans - whose education is generally focused on the lowest common denominator in order to give everyone more of an exaggerated self-esteem than a real knowledge and understanding of the world - America's only lever with the rest of the world was never its so-called values of freedom, democracy and such; it was always money. Money is the only measure of success and happiness in America. 

Now you know why Donald Trump measures geopolitical affairs with a simple balance sheet. This is the mental construct behind his behavior towards other world leaders - "They're all kissing my ass to make a deal" he farted yesterday. Money is the only real asset Americans have with which to negotiate with others.

I have had so many of my fellow patriotic Americans admit to feeling inferior to other cultures, of wanting to move to Europe and live there, long before Trump made such a desire an emergency.

I have heard many Americans express their disdain for their own culture, rife with violence, cultural mediocrity, hypercapitalism, unfettered greed even in such fundamentally humanitarian issues as healthcare and education.

Many of my American friends have built a life around giving themselves a fake, but desperate, identity that is alien to their own, which does feel contrived. They compulsively learn foreign languages as if it was a tool to liberate themselves from the doldrums of an intellectually boring America. They end their childhood years with a "tour of Europe" as if it was some sort of rite of passage. They make sure to tell their "foreign" friends how much they hate their country, how much they would love to live elsewhere, etc. Problem is that this whole mental duplicity lacks substance. They know who they really are but reject their own identity and rely only on stereotypes as superficial cosmetics to hide perceived blemishes and shortcomings.

In [https://www.verywellmind.com/understanding-the-inferiority-complex-5186892], "an inferiority complex is when a person has feelings of inadequacy or inferiority, whether real or imagined. These feelings may result from a physical defect or surface in situations where we feel less intelligent than our peers... With an inferiority complex, however, it isn’t uncommon for a person to withdraw in the presence of people who make them feel insufficient. In some scenarios, such a person may attempt to overcompensate for a perceived deficiency by behaving in an excessively competitive manner or by acting aggressively toward others". Sounds familiar?