Know-nothingism

[Skybird]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...570800,00.html

This is a reprint from the NYT, tailored for American current issues, however, if replacing the American examples with ones from German inner politics, I fear both nations are haunted by the same plague.

What I mean, instead, is that know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: “Real men don’t think things through.”

That is a credo not limited to American Republicans, I would say. It is representative for most political happening in the West in general.