Andrei's Google Talk

[BCS]

Hello Don,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Hello retard,
>> 
>> Just today, I had it pointed out to me that one of the major
>> political differences between the US and Europe is that, as a
>> generality, Europeans, trust the government more than corporations,
>> where Americans, if we trust either, it's the corporations. It stands
>> to reason too; the US was populated by the people who didn't like
>> living under European governments.
>> 
> For sure. That's why the US is such a beaurocratic country: if you
> don't
> trust your government, you need a big layer of beaurocracy to add
> additional checks.
> Interestingly the lack of trust of the government doesn't occur in
> other
> New World countries like Australia -- it seems fairly specific to the
> US.
>> And just to be complete, need I remind you who was running Germany's
>> 
> government about 75 years ago?
> 
> I don't think that's relevant. The US lack of trust of government is
> very much older than that. "The right to bear arms".
> 

There was two point in that:

1) Europeans don't trust their government more because it's more trust worthy 
(it isn't) and
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law#Corollaries_and_usage

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