Is the USA the most backwards nation?

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.

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.