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.

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.