Author: FlowHarbour Research

The traditional MAGA camp represented by rural white people, and the traditional MAGA camp represented by Musk and DOGE After winning an unprecedented election victory over the Democratic Party and completely eliminating external threats to the Democratic Party, the Silicon Valley technical elite, represented by the newly converted Republican Party, soon realized that the interests of the two were actually very different. The alliance between the two sides was only built on the fragile basis of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." After the decline of the common enemy, the cracks appeared in front of the world's observers faster than expected.

As mentioned above, the MAGA group and Silicon Valley technology elite who united under Trump to oppose DEI and deep state in the 2024 election, In fact, they are at two extremes on the spectrum. Just like the famous controversial tweet that Musk liked, in the normal distribution of American IQ, the Silicon Valley elite with the highest IQ on the right side and the rednecks with the lowest IQ on the left All support the Republican Party, while those with IQs near the median support the Democratic Party. This clearly shows that Musk clearly knows that Silicon Valley elites and rednecks working together with Trump are ultimately just a stop-gap measure. They are just a compromise between the far-right MAGA and Silicon Valley elites, which happen to fall within the traditional Republican Party represented by Trump. It is just the intersection of the establishment and moderate MAGA. This alliance, full of compromises and temporary nature, is very fragile.

From the perspective of elite entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, the low-cost Indian and Chinese STEM technical labor force entering through H1B is necessary for technology companies to maintain their competitiveness. Indispensable. But as we all know, the far-right MAGA rhetorically opposes illegal immigration. In fact, it opposes high-paid legal immigrants in the legal, medical, financial, IT, and semiconductor industries. However, due to the systematic failure of the American public education system, functional illiteracy and literacy are common. Low-class white people with dyslexia simply cannot replace the jobs of these professional and technical talents. Therefore, on the issue of H1B visa immigration, there has been a huge conflict between the Silicon Valley faction and the white MAGA. What’s more, the Silicon Valley faction has already had a large number of Indian executives join Musk in the highest center of U.S. federal power.

The cause of this MAGA debate was a tweet posted by Musk’s second-in-command at the Department of Efficiency (DOGE), Indian-born Vivek Ramaswamy:< /p>

Top tech companies often hire foreign-born and first-generation immigrant engineers instead of "native" Americans, and not because Native Americans are born with deficient IQs (this is a lazy and incorrect explanation). One of the key factors comes down to that word that starts with a “c”: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers, and if we're really serious about solving them, we have to face the truth: Our American culture has long (at least since the 1990s, and probably earlier) prized mediocrity over excellence. This doesn't start in college, but in childhood. A culture that prizes prom queens over math Olympiad champions, or athletes over valedictorians, will not produce the best engineers. We cannot cultivate a culture that celebrates Cory from "The Boys", Zach and Slater from "The Bell" instead of Screech, and Stefan from "The Resident Alien" instead of Steve Urkel. of the best engineers.

Watch more movies like "Crunch" and less "Friends" reruns. Watch more math tutoring and less sleepovers. Watch more weekend science fairs and less Saturday morning cartoons. Read more books and watch less TV. Focus more on creation and less on “relaxation”. Watch more extracurricular activities and less shopping malls. Most normal American parents are suspicious of "this kind of parent." More normal American kids look down their noses at "such kids." If you aspire to be normal when you grow up, you will eventually become normal.

Now close your eyes and imagine the families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raised their children according to one model and another Another model for raising children. Please speak up. In the ultra-competitive global market for technical talent, “normal” does not apply. If we pretended to be so, we would be beaten hard.

This could be our Sputnik moment. We have awakened from slumber before, and we can awaken again. Hopefully, Trump’s election will mark the beginning of a new golden age in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. This culture once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; and nerdiness over conformity.;Place diligence over laziness. That's the task we set for ourselves, not to indulge in a victim mentality and just hope (or legislate) for alternative recruitment practices. I believe we can do it.

A little explanation:

"Boy Meets World" ) Content introduction: This is an American teen sitcom that tells the story of Cory Matthews's growth experience from childhood to adulthood; "Saved by the Bell" mainly revolves around Bayside High School unfolded among a group of students, Zach Morris Morris is one of the core characters. He is smart, naughty, and often gets into trouble but can always solve it cleverly; Slater is a sports star in the school with a straightforward personality; "Family" Matters) Steve Urkel is a very distinctive character in the show. He is a nerdy figure who wears big glasses, dresses weirdly, behaves awkwardly but is kind-hearted and intelligent. The "Explosion Drummer" mentioned in the article tells the story of an aspiring drummer who continues to improve and work hard under the strict guidance of a strict teacher; the "Sputnik Moment" refers to the Soviet Union's victory over the United States on October 4, 1957. The launch of Sputnik 1 plunged the Western world into a period of fear and anxiety. Since then, the United States has become vigilant and launched educational programs to cultivate a new generation of engineers.

Ramaswamy, who graduated from Harvard University, is a disciple of Soros, the cousin of JD Vance’s wife, and the founder and CEO of several innovative drug companies. He once ran for president of the United States but gave up after Trump entered the election. He is one of the most successful second-generation Brahmin immigrants. His remarks caused an uproar. On the one hand, MAGA supporters believe that Indians are not qualified to point fingers at American culture and education, nor are they qualified to say that white rural Americans are intellectually and culturally inferior; on the other hand, in the context of Musk’s betrayal of MAGA being a foregone conclusion, Ramaswamy, the finger-pointing person, Musk, an Indian and South African immigrant, "reached directly to the sky" and "entered the customs from the dragon" and became the "iron hat king side by side", and JD Vance and other MAGA The fact that representative figures have to marry into their families to gain a foothold has also deeply stung the self-esteem of the MAGA community.

Dysfunction and the inability to remember multiplication tables are also closely related to the collapse of the American public education system, the high cost of higher education, and the overpopularity of cheap entertainment guidance. It cannot simply be attributed to the bad nature of rednecks, but the current fact is that the MAGA group and Rust Belt workers have been abandoned by American society. Apart from the votes in their hands, they no longer have any "united front value", so MAGA After cheering for Trump and Musk, he became a discarded child of the Trump and Musk camps. "Illegal immigrant" Musk directly tweeted this explicit content:

"The reason why I was able to come to the United States and work with many mission-critical companies to build Spacex and Tesla and hundreds of A company that makes the United States strong is all because of the H1B visa, which is equivalent to a naked denial of redneck For any meaning in the United States, all the credit for America’s competitive advantage in science and technology should be attributed to H1B visa STEM talents. What makes MAGA even more unbearable is that MAGA’s poster child Trump also liked this tweet.

This explicit provocation and contempt aroused huge opposition. While former U.S. presidential aide Bannon and other elites warned Musk to be too involved and not to interfere in the H1B cancellation process, MAGA ordinary people also fought back mercilessly on the Internet public opinion field, such as the following questions:

"Why not introduce Indian immigrants""Why "The threshold for H1B talent introduction is so low" and "Why do truck drivers also need to be introduced through H1B visa?" are indeed difficult questions to answer. Without a reasonable explanation, the MAGA group directly launched a vigorous anti-Indian immigration movement across the United States, and even Well-known figures from different camps, such as Bannon and Sanders, all held a unanimous position and came out to oppose H1B. However, now that H1B visa review has been dominated by Indians and H1B visa has become an industry, if we want to reverse the trend of Indian immigrants entering the United States, whether from the perspective of the current situation, the demand for talents by technology companies, or the perspective of de-inflation, or Whether the high-cost public education system in the United States can produce a sufficient number of engineers to replace Indians is an unanswerable question. Besides, MAGA rednecks like to flaunt their willingness to serve their motherlanddied in battle, but the military participation rate in red states is generally lower than that in blue states, making their promises even less credible.

It can be said that MAGA's internal debate represents the real "hillybilly elegy": MAGA people think that voting for Trump, Vance and Musk can return to the He turned around and made the decision, but he didn't expect that before Trump took office, the capital elites who switched to the Republican Party would once again burn their bridges.