I'm not even going to get into third world countries in Africa and East Europe and South America, those places are developing and things are getting better over time. So calling them backwards isn't right. But let's look at all the modern countries in the world and compare them to America. How come if you look at Western Europe or Canada or even Japan you will never see the populist insanity that is about to send this country over the cliff tomorrow? Even when people are angry at the economy in these other countries they still THINK.
Look at the elections that just happened in UK. The conservatives won but those conservatives would be considered sane in this country and wouldn't be any part of the tea party. Only in this country is the electorate so fucked in the head that they would put people like Tom Tancredo and Sharron Angle and Sarah Palin in power. In any other country these people wouldn't be able to run for office with their fucked view of the world.
So is this the most backwards country in the modern industrialized world? That's a serious question. BTW I fully expect tomorrow to be a bloodbath, conservatives are excited and democrats/liberals/people with brains are demoralized and defeated.
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Anonymous2010-11-02 4:52
I don't know, but all I know is that I had no idea that the numbers of trash people in the US was millions upon millions of them until the last few years. I know most US loungers are probably not unsophisticated louts (with the exception of the weird political guy with the weird stuff he repeats from his talk radio heroes or something). Here in Canada, the closest thing we have to teabaggers are actually in power (though with minority government status), and it is embarrassing and depressing.
Rammstein said it best in "We're all living in America".
Face it Euro's and Canada. You're living in America. You have the option of eating American food, you can wear American clothes, your cinemas show American movies, your TV's broadcast American shows, your radios play American music. All foreign food here is Americanized, the only foreign thing about clothing in America is that it's made in foreign sweat shops. Very rarely do foreign films succeed or even gain a following in America, and if they do they're only those artistic movies. Monty Python is the only non American tv show I know here in America that has a following.
You know who our president is and how our govt works. You know our countries issues, you know where our military is. You know everything about our country and if you try talking to an American about any other country, we can't tell you shit. Even Canada and Mexico, the countries we trade with the most, we couldn't tell you much about either country. Why, well one because yes, we are ignorant, but second because we don't have to. The rest of the world could stop or go to war or whatever, radical governmental change, and unless the leader is straight talking shit to America, it won't affect us. Deal with it, you're not as important as you think you are.
Look I know I'm sounding like a typical ignorant American who's sounding butthurt, but I mean, I can afford to be, because in the long run, your country doesn't matter to me. It doesn't have to. Now I know that sounds terrible, and it probably is, but if you don't like it stop caring about America so much. Your hatred and constant bickering about us only proves how much we affect your life.
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Anonymous2010-11-02 8:51
>>6 Your hatred
and constant bickering about us
only proves how much we affect
your life.
You've got it the wrong way round there yank.
We bitch because of how america affects our lives. You would too.
One, the gap between the rich and the poor in the United States, is the widest in any of the industrialized nations.
Two, in 1950 the United States was number five in health care, sixty years later in 2010, it is now number 49 in health care around the world.
Most of our electrical and land line telephone wires are of 1960s vintage, same with our rail and most transportation lines. I'd say domestically we're practically already a second world nation.
populist
If there was a time that populism was needed, it is now. Granted, not Tea/Coffee/Rally for sanity type of populism we've been seeing lately, something truly grassroots (The Tea Party did start grassroots, but has long been hijacked by the establishment Republican party, so they're mostly irrelevant now).
>>8
Indeed, the term "populist" is not even the same as sourced from the common people, but rather a technique of politics. I saw an interesting lecturer outline the features: effort to appeal to the desires of the poor, and allying with some sort of power elite, which could be the extremely wealthy class or the military, in order to actually be successfully in power. Another feature, if the polician is very off center, is unrelenting antagonism to anyone who is seen to not be on the team. That helps the politician communicate to the poor masses that they have common enemies. That is where you get terrible and nasty to entire ethnic groups, various organizations, and other political parties. The lecturer was speaking of South American countries' history of the prior 40 or so years, and it does seem that the USA has elements within it that would take it into that realm. The wealthiest are rewarded, and because this particular populist effort is from the extreme right, the poor are never substantially helped as social programs are seen as wrong to exist and have been linked to the demonized groups.
>>6
Yes, we already know all that about your insulated sort of people that you have so many of. It's not like you can tell us something that we don't already know about the USA, or can't look up really quickly these days.
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Anonymous2010-11-02 17:59
why are there so many more MILFs on the Republican side?
>>15
Ironically she may help the struggle for masturbators' rights, now that the common man sees how easy it is lose what little freedom to masturbate we have now.
>>16 eurofag
Wow, wow, wow, hold it right there, chump! back to /b/, please
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Anonymous2010-11-03 3:27
Say, I don't know about you fellas, but if there was a Whiskey party, it'd sure get my votes
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Anonymous2010-11-03 4:03
>>14
She kind of has a young Sally Field look going on. I like that.
>>16
By "Tea Party" do you mean Republican candidates? Well, they took control of our House of Representatives, Senate I think is still majority Democrat.
>>18
Don't worry, you'll still be able to whack off. The gays on the other hand.
>>20
Yeah, that damn George Washington. How dare he tax my favorite drink!
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Anonymous2010-11-03 4:07
>>21
Who gives a shit. We aren't impressed by your 'intelligence' or analytical skills.
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Anonymous2010-11-03 4:45
OP must be one of those ignorant Americans who think Canada/Europe are beacons of progressiveness, intelligence and rational thought. I've encountered these before, as a European they amuse me but also embarrass me. Our politics are just as retarded as yours though in a different manner. We don't have many religious conservatives but you don't need to be religious to be a insane rightwing populist (we have plenty of those, much more than the US).