"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message
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"Tamas Feher" wrote:

History's Worst Presidential Candidate

I'd say the current President GWB would be high on the list

We don't try to run your country. Stop trying to run ours.

The problem with your sentence is: it's false. The USA thinks she is the
world police and tries to tell the 6 billion non-US people on Earth how
they should live politically, economically and lifestyle-wise.

The rootless USA people, few of whom know who their great grandparents
were are demolishing traditional cultures worlwide by spreading and
advocating Hollywood junk and the culture of worshiping violance. USA
values individualism over true diversity and its media turns people into
mindless consumer automatons who only make tycoons richers day by day.
The USA confiscates other countries natural resources (especially OIL)
and pollutes international and foreign territories. The US SUV ignorance
eats up all the resources worldwide, spews poisons and makes the globe
unsuitable for future generations. Americans live so carelessly as if
the human paragraph in the history book of Earth is going to end
tomorrow. Stop daydreaming, there is no way all the 290 million of you
can move to Mars. You either make it with us into the future or all of
the Earth will be a dead planet in 70 years.


I think that Tamas has things wrong. The US was formed from the
ttroublemakers, malcontents and dissidents from all over the Earth. They
came here to get away from paternalistic Authority trying to interfere
with their lives and to get away from the petty tribalistic grudges that
have hampered the Old World for centuries. In America, Hungarians don't
hate Czechs, who don"t hate Slovaks, who don't hate Croatians, etc, ad
nauseum.

It shows in American attitudes and politics, which have tended to be insular and
isolationist until fairly recently. Whatever, all those troublemakers, misfits
and desperate refugees certainly seem to have proven they can do very well given
a chance as a nation I'd say?

The same was once true of the British, a bunch of mongrels from all over Europe,
who somehow managed to build a massive empire across the world from a tiny
island at one time. Diversity and variety makes strength and fortitude in a
nation I reckon, which shows up Hitlers' obsessional notions of 'racial purity'
as the nonsense they are.

IMHO, Tamas is simply jealous that he doesn't live here.

I can't speak for him, but I'm pretty sure that much anti-US feeling throughout
the world is based on that - you have nice toys and aren't afraid to show them
off, and they don't like it. Instead of making their own, some of them want to
break yours - or steal them.
Cheers
Martin