[Skybird]

I hear a brother-in-soul complaining in that article, it reminds me of what I have written in the past about establishments and keeping their self-tailored rules alive by constantly pledging loyalty to them and voting for them even when voting for a different party - the system they live by you nevertheless legitimise by parcticipating in it - the vote actually have given, is almost not important.

It is also about egoism and short-sightedness. Just today or yesterday a major German newspaper published the findings of a study that revealed that although most Germans expressed stellar distrust into the euro and the EU and expect that their pensions will suffer dramatically and that before they reach that age their social security payments will explode - they refuse to see the link between that and the state'S debts and social payment burdens, and their own unlimited expectation that the state nevertheless should nruse and care for the citizen, almost without limits. The expectations towards thje state are still limitless, nbody thinks about consequences to be drawn, nobody sees the links between the higher outcome, and his individual demands - and his personal tolerance for any obviously malfunctioning system that additionally does its best to kill itself.

Beotonov is right, what the article says in principal is nothing limited to Americans, but describes basic mechanism at work in Europe as well. It is something international, not something American.