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To: Stormweaver who wrote (5538)	4/26/1999 8:17:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

The U.S. has the popularity factor in it's favour over the 3rd Reich Popular with who, and how? Popular with refugees as a destination, certainly. The U.S. is still seen as the land of opportunity. Just as players will battle to join a winning team, so people from around the world battle to come here. I don't know whether people were trying to get into Germany in the 30s, but with the depression there was a lot of dislocation. Popular with ourselves, certainly. But is the US more popular with its citizens than the 3rd Reich was with Germans? Doubtful. Don't forget that Hitler was popularly elected, and that tens to hundreds of thousands of people turned out for his rallies. When was the last time we saw that kind of crowd out for a rally by a political party in this country? (Scary thought: what would Hitler have done if he had had the power of Television behind him?) Popular with the world? Certainly the US is more feared. But more popular than Germany was in the 30s? I just don't know.

To: Stormweaver who wrote (5538)	4/26/1999 8:19:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

One other point not brought up yet is the way in which we try to control other nations with respect to drugs because we can't control our own population's demand for drugs. We put tremendous pressure on other nations to stop the flow of drugs into our country. Why should that be their problem? Why should Burma or Mexico or Columbia suffer economically because our government can't keep its people from demanding huge quantities of illegal drugs? Yet our mode of thinking as a nation (or a government at least) is to blame the producing countries, not blame the country where the drugs are actually used. Weird.