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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (27078)1/31/2004 2:59:56 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) of 793581
 
If one looks at it objectively, though, I think the question has to be whether it is more likely that long-standing developed and fully-functioning countries are being absurd or simply assessing the situation differently. Ascribing mental illness to a functioning country is not the conclusion more likely to be correct.

Nazi Germany and the USSR were functioning countries that were quite mad. Ideology. I don't say Europe is mad, but the assumptions of a significant portion of the population seems to be quite bent.

What was it? 80% believe that war, any war, is wrong. Significant proportions believe that America deserved 9/11, and that America is the leading threat to world peace. And so forth. It is discussed over and over here. They have a jaundiced ideological prism. Which makes them conclude insane things. Like the hunter that has always protected them is a greater danger than the bear that wishes to eat them.

Derek
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