As I keep repeating, my theory is that there are at least 3 major types of power in America: Popular power (the ability to win hearts), intellectual influence (the ability to win minds), and wealth (the ability to win wallets).
Popular power can be measured by various popularity contests. In my last post I focused on the Greatest American contest, but scientist and blogger Bruce Charlton was skeptical of such an unscientific poll. A rare scientific poll is the most admired man and woman survey conducted by the prestigious Gallup organization. Virtually every December since 1946, Gallup has been asking a representative sample of (non-institutionalized) American adults the following open-ended question (with no prompting or pre-selected list to choose from):
What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most? And who is your second choice?
The same question is then asked for the most admired women.
Because respondents are free to choose any of the billions of men and women on Earth they admire most, including family members, being the first or second choice of even 1% of Americans is an astonishing honor. It means that millions of adults, in the World’s sole superpower, rank you as the first or second man (or woman) on Earth they admire most, when they have billions of others to choose from!
For someone to admire you more than they admire over 99.9999999% of other men or women, means that they absolutely worship you. You are virtually God to them, and God, by definition, is all powerful, thus this list is a good measure of power; and indeed it would have to be when the sitting president of the United States, the Leader of the Free World, ranks number one virtually every single year. Because in a democracy, which America pretends to be, popularity = power.
The following chart shows the race of each of the most admired men as of December 2014. Because respondents were free to choose any man on Earth, several non-Americans (i.e. Pope Francis, Benjamin Netanyahu) also made the list, but I excluded them because the purpose is to see the racial distribution of America’s most popular, and how it compares with the racial distribution of America as a whole. But you can see the complete list here.
| percentage of american adults who worship this man (as of dec, 2014) | race | |
| barack obama (self-made) | 19 | black |
| bill clinton (self-made) | 3 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| rev. billy graham (self-made) | 2 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| george w. bush | 2 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| ben carson (self-made) | 1 | black |
| bill gates (self-made) | 1 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| bill o’reilly (self-made) | 1 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| george h.w. bush | 1 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| mitt romney | 1 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| joel osteen | 1 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| thomas monson | 0.5 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| donald trump | 0.5 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| colin powell (self-made) | 0.5 | black |
| jimmy carter (self-made) | 0.5 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| warren buffet (self-made) | 0.5 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| ted cruz (self-made) | 0.5 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| mike huckabee (self-made) | 0.5 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| john mccain | 0.5 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| clint eastwood (self-made) | 0.5 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| glenn beck (self-made) | 0.5 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| brad pitt (self-made) | 0.5 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
| newt gingrich (self-made) | 0.5 | non-hispanic, non-jewish white |
So as you can see, despite African Americans being 13% of America, they are 14% of America’s most worshiped men (three out of 22). Although Jews normally do spectacularly well on other measures of power (i.e. wealth and intellectual influence), when it comes to raw popular power, not single Jewish-American man is widely worshiped by Americans, nor is a single East Asian American man, or Indian American man. Only one of the 22 (5%), is Hispanic.
Now let’s look at the most admired women. Once again, several foreign women also appear (i.e. Malala Yousafzai, Princess Kate, Queen Elizabeth, Angela Merkel, J.K. Rowling, Aung San Suu Kyi) but I limited the chart below to Americans:
| percentage of american adults who worship this woman (as of Dec 2014) | race | |
| hillary clinton | 12 | non-hispanice, non-jewish white |
| oprah winfrey (self-made) | 8 | black |
| condoleeza rice (self-made) | 4 | black |
| michelle obama | 3 | black |
| angelina jolie | 2 | non-hispanice, non-jewish white |
| sarah palin (self-made) | 2 | non-hispanice, non-jewish white |
| elizabeth warren (self-made) | 1 | non-hispanice, non-jewish white |
| laura bush | 1 | non-hispanice, non-jewish white |
| barbara bush | 1 | non-hispanice, non-jewish white |
| ellen degeneres (self-made) | 1 | non-hispanice, non-jewish white |
| beyonce knowles (self-made) | 1 | black |
| scarlett johansson (self-made) | 1 | jewish |
| michele bachmann (self-made) | 0.5 | non-hispanice, non-jewish white |
| barbara walters (self-made) | 0.5 | jewish |
| madeleine albright (self-made) | 0.5 | jewish |
Most popularity contests rank Oprah as the most worshiped woman in America, but on the Gallup poll, Oprah must settle for being the most worshiped self-made woman in America, because Hillary takes first place among women. The reason is probably because most popularity contests just ask Americans to say who they most admire regardless of gender, and Oprah is the only woman many people spontaneously name. However on the Gallup poll, Americans are forced to name a woman, so Hillary gets a lot of votes from men who would normally not name any woman at all.
The poll would have been better had they simply asked what living person do you admire, rather than asking it separately for men and women, but back in the 1940s when the poll began, probably no women at all would have been named had they not explicitly asked.
Of the 15 most worshiped women, four are black (27%) and three are Jewish (20%), and 0% are East Asian, Indian, or Hispanic.
Averaging across both America’s most worshiped men and the most worshiped women. 21% are black, 10% are Jewish, 3% are Hispanic, 0% are East Asian or Indian, and 66% are non-Hispanic White gentiles.
Most admired vampires of a nation, good!
America is actually a huge storage space of junk, instead of riches. This becomes apparent where other 1st world nations have already abandoned the senseless consumerism of Americans. Technology has made the American ideology more obsolete than ever.
What i said sometimes here, Murrica is very similar than Brazil, just less worst, but values, culture, in the essential perspective, both are very similar. It’s not good.
Santo – Yes, Brazil is a ghetto like America. A lot of sociopaths and all kinds of other garbage. Most of the New World is garbage, except Canada, but it may be on the path of the same, with their immigrants from the 3rd world.
If more Jews joined the military or belonged to Christian organizations they would absolutely dominate this list. But they seem to be a bit allergic to both.
Jews are very charismatic in addition to having high intelligence. They don’t do so well in sports, which also hinders their popularity with regards to the American sheeple.
with regard to fucktard.
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I’ve never met a gentile who loves Jews more than you do.
It’s a beautiful thing.
No wonder you named yourself after LOTB, LOL
So much for my theory that high IQ blacks are especially anti-semetic.
I’ve never met a gentile who loves Jews more than you do.
I’m pretty sure a lot of Christian Righters are worse than me in that regard.
They literally believe Jews are the Chosen People, even though the average Jew thinks nothing of them!
At least my appreciation for Jews is based on their objective contributions, even though I do admit that they have their faults.
So much for my theory that high IQ blacks are especially anti-semetic.
Don’t use a single data point to disprove your theory. Anecdotal evidence isn’t the basis of science.
Yes, but an high IQ Black who is interested in HBD would have a different profil and less hate for the intellectually superior race.
Or may be because high IQ people from every races tend to not be racists at all.
I have noticed that Pumpkin is quite paternalist with LOTJ and that LOTJ, because of low testosterone, tend to be a “follower” everywhere he goes.
*I dont mean that LOTJ is a follower in the sense that he believe everything someone says but more in the sense that he always appear like a schoolgirl whose teachers are Pumpkin, Jayman, LOTB, Gregory Cochran …etc.
LOTJ, because of low testosterone, tend to be a “follower” everywhere he goes.
I enjoy my low testosterone. It makes me more cautious and less interested in women.
I dont mean that LOTJ is a follower in the sense that he believe everything someone says but more in the sense that he always appear like a schoolgirl whose teachers are Pumpkin, Jayman, LOTB, Gregory Cochran …etc.
If I seem sycophantic it’s only because I recognize that the bloggers you list represent a vanguard in human thought, a new wave in the understanding of human nature. And they’re being entirely ignored by the mainstream! So I think I’m justified in heaping praise on those writers.
And speaking of LOTB, he was one of the first to synthesize four or five or six separate strains of thought: Paul Fussell’s magisterial 1984 book Class, David Brooks’ Bobos in Paradise, Marxist class analysis, the class systems analysis of HBD-fellow travellers like Charles Murray, various libertarian critiques, and the concepts of value transference and creation (although the British economist Roger Boole has also written on a similar concept of creative vs. distributive work, with which I’m guessing LOTB is familiar. Even Tyler Cowen has written about the concept.)
But I have called out LOTB several times for errors in his thinking. For instance, he posted this error-filled post in response to a chart of Steve Hsu’s I linked to in his comment section (notice that our host PP was the first to jump in and comment that IQ probably correlates with income even once controlling for income). LOTB argues that IQ may be meaningful independent of education at lower levels of ability, but not at higher levels (of course). LOTB also believes that high verbal-IQ is more important than high spatial-IQ in determining high levels of wealth, which I’m not so sure is the case (I think it’s a combination of both).
You see, LOTB has never accomplished as much as one expects for a high-IQ Jew, so he tries to find environmental reasons for his failure, arguing that the class system and his lack of access to prestigious schools held him back. I’ve pointed out several times in the comments section that perhaps LOTB has inherited certain behavioral traits that make him less apt to achieve high levels of wealth. I know this may seem distasteful and overly-critical, but it’s true. Too often HBDers try to find environmental arguments for human phenomenon when it suits them, but backtrack to genetics whenever it likewise suits them. None of this detracts from LOTB’s overall body of work, which is some of the greatest in history of HBD blogging.
There’s no HBD blogger I agree with entirely, and it’s not because I always have entirely well-formed reasons to disagree with them, but because their arguments seem contradictory or against my personal intuitions. Even some of the masters of HBD blogging, like Steve Sailer and Jayman I frequently disagree with. PP believes in EGI and uses fuzzy stats. Even the most objective and thoughtful writers will occasionally let their personal biases slip in. But that’s okay, because good readers should always think critically anyhow, and everyone is allowed their own opinion, even if it’s wrong.
But I have called out LOTB several times for errors in his thinking. For instance, he posted this error-filled post in response to a chart of Steve Hsu’s I linked to in his comment section (notice that our host PP was the first to jump in and comment that IQ probably correlates with income even once controlling for income).
I meant to post this:
https://lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/shame-on-steve-hsu/
LOTB is certainly bright & brings a unique combination of politics: A Marxist on economic issues. A conservative on racial & social issues. And a neocon on foreign policy.
But deep down you might believe in EGI too. For example you’ve argued that racists have lower IQs because racism is evolutionarily familiar. If you believe people evolved to be racist then you believe in EGI or at least something very similar.
People didn’t evolve to be racist per se, people evolved to support their own individual self-interests at all costs. People align themselves in racial groups because of the government benefits that come from it, and maybe because of history, not because of any instinctual race loyalty.
no surprise.
jewish media enforces anti-anti-semitism, but gentiles STILL find jews to be…
GROSS!
These guys were nearly eliminated during WWII and somehow they become gods when they dug themselves a hole to America.
I see in the Defamation movie that rabbi jews like of this ”anti-semiti-sm” because ”jews” become aware of the ”hatred” of outsiders. Hate is one of the best way to improve similar genetic interests.
If i was a black person i would hate ”jews”. They promote mixing race with blacks because they think blacks are a inferior biological demography. But jews are very creative. 🙂
Unsubstantiated antisemitism.
Define ”antisemetism”
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Followers or mindless groupies no have independent thoughts. If ”amurrican” merdia say for them that jews ”are” special and white americans ”are” bad, they no doubt will believe in it.
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