[bobnat]

Hoene,

It's not an American condition, it's a human condition.

You would be hard-pressed to find a group of people who at one time or another did not follow blindly some demagogue. Europe had Nazism, Fascism, and hundreds of years of royal oppression. I strongly suspect you're European, and Hoene is certainly Germanic in nature, so you shouldn't be so quick to condemn others. All groups can be dumb at times. Hopefully, they come to their senses and rid themselves of the morons in power. Churchill said, "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." The US may have its faults, but I know from experience that it's better than most places in the world.

But let's not turn this into a bashing your culture, my culture argument. I simply was expressing my opinions on what it means to be a citizen of a country and the responsibility of accepting the good with the bad within that context.

Nat