Also what is up with this collective schizophrenia of the American public? This frankly insane distrust of "the government" and the same type of sick obsession with the apocalypse (end of days, peak oil, etc. etc. etc.) is a just a bewildering immaturity and psychosis that is easily wedged by the powerful. Any type of moderately accessible and logical policy debate is almost instantly derailed by real life trolls boiling down to these collective lapses is any type of reason, maturity and thoughtfulness by raising the old "big government" straw man and playing off many American's almost sick desire for some type of apocalyptic ending. Yes yes, we know that you all ran from the monarchy and slaughtered one another whole scale in the civil war... I guess they just can't move on from that collective history.
It also helps answer the question of:
How is it that the country with the highest GDP per capita in the world is also somehow populated by what seems to be the most superstitious and irrational people in the western world?
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