Alex Gogan wrote: > > When in America (which is a country I love to visit, and I think that you > have a wonderful country with great people - bar republican voters) now has > become so polarised and brain washed that now nothing surprises me anymore. > Barbara Bush's last comment (akin to let them eat cake) would have gone > around as a joke but its now true. > I think the problem of the USA [or maybe it's its greatest virtue?] is that they tend to turn _everything_ into a political-religious issue.
Take for example gay rights. In any normal society, as soon as being gay was accepted within the normal deviation from standard [in statistical terms! I am not implying that gays are not normal or deviates!!!] behaviour, it would soon turn that the laws that protect heterosexuals would be extended to gays. But not in the USA, where gay bashing _and_ gay activism became political and religious forces. I have contact with the Down Syndrom community [because my oldest daughter has D.S.], and the questions that flow among the USA D.S. community are filled with politics. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
