"Mob Rule"

[malthaussen]

7. I dunno about the "civilized world."

What a blow it would be to our collective ego if we found that the "entire civilized world" can get on just fine without us.

I'd say this is a test, right now, a snapshot of what we want to be as a nation. Leave the rest of the world out of it. If we want to stand for Enlightenment values, then get out and vote away the pigs who sneer at them and feather their own nests. Since 1980, we have been an "I got mine, fuck you" nation in large part. The situation today is the swollen, pus-filled abscess that must be drained before the infection kills us. OTOH, if we, as a nation, cannot be motivated enough to stand up for the principals we claim to love, then I'd say (from the moral standpoint), we get what we deserve.

-- Mal