Is it time?

[Eric]

Originally Posted by egg&chips

Well, you are closer to that neck of the woods Eric and I cannot comment first hand like you can (I know you're in Canada not USA), but a widespread ,and growing, dissatisfaction with federal government by whatever party, might just be symptomatic of a national mindset which refuses to become a cohesive national mindset? Colin Wilson, though not always the most picky of source choosers makes some valid points in A Criminal History of Mankind about dispossessed or rootless societies losing a degree of compassion for their fellow man.

"Dissatisfaction with the federal government" and a struggle to sort out a "national mindset": this is Canada Hey, we got it in spades.

The point I was making, or attempting, is that one can't come to conclusions from premises so vague and so ... I don't know, "silly" comes to mind ... as "America has no history". There are lots of histories in America, and these reflect themselves in the regional and ethnic, and a multitude of other differences.

And the allegiance to the flag thingy ... swearing allegiance to the flag doesn't turn anyone into a patriot. Hey, I said the Lord's Prayer every day I went to school ... didn't make me much of a Christian

[cashman]

The history they aint got as far as i'm concerned, apart from ethnical indians n such, which don't count sod all to most yanks, n i defy anyone to tell me different,