Has America lost its mind?

[MrScorpio]

Poll question: Has America lost its mind?

Present proof of your opinion

[DarkTirade]

1. You're implying that it had one to lose in the first place.

This is a country that was founded on a 'one man, one vote' platform, and yet still kept slavery legal for about a hundred years after that.

If this country had a mind, it would be a schizophrenic one.

[pokerfan]

3. founded by a group of slave owners

who wanted to be.... free.

[DarkTirade]

4. Exactly.

:crazy:

[elshiva]

10. Yes.

:(

[harmonicon]

8. "what a terrible thing it is to lose one's mind, when one has no mind to lose"

- Dan Quayle

[hobbit709]

2. George Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain, Sarah Palin

any given neocon, Joe Lieberman

[skygazer]

5. The continued popularity of "reality television"

The fact that Bush still has an approval rating that is not a negative number.

[semillama]

6. We're a nation founded on cognitive dissonance.

Men expounding liberty while pushing Native Americans off their land, owning slaves, and keeping women as second-class citizens. That's not a recipe for starting out well.

I'm really hoping we can get over it, but CD seems to the modus operandi of the right wing. It's their primary way of viewing the world.

[harmonicon]

7. you're asking for proof?

Where have you been the last 8 years?

[MrScorpio]

9. Bush's presidency is transitional

I'm looking for a more transcendental explanation

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. maybe something along this line --

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it"

[MrScorpio]

24. That explains so much

It should be tattooed on every American's forehead

[Inchworm]

11. I have

I visit it on occasion

:hi:

[ThomCat]

12. Yes!

People haven't been rioting in the streets over all the shit republicans, hedge funds, insurance companies, and military contractors have been doing to our country.

Fox new is somehow still in business.

Despite gas prices and fuel shortages and all the violent politics behind oil, a lot of people are still buying cars without asking about hybrids or electrics.

How much more proof do we need that people have lost their minds?

[tismyself]

13. I can't provide proof of my opinion

I voted "maybe" - I'm trying to be optimistic.

I prefer to think of the USA as a very young country going through growing pains, like a 4 year old spoiled rotten brat.

For a very long time, there really has not been another country like this one, the whole melting pot thing, and as such, we don't have much of a national identity. I'm not sure if we ever will either, but then again, maybe the folks in Britain thought the same thing a thousand years ago.

But I do have hope, I do believe that eventually we'll figure it out. We are so used to instant this and that, bigger, better, super sized, microwaved, got to have it now, being able to manipulate what we're listening to or watching (pause, fast forward, slow down, reverse, replay...) that I think we're loosing sight of some things just taking a while, like Ent Moots.

[graywarrior]

14. The right wing fundie movement infected America's brain

We haven't been the same since the hysteria over Bill Clinton's penis

[tismyself]

15. Which wasn't nearly as entertaining as Watergate.

Remember (hell, maybe you don't!) Nixon getting on the helicopter?

[graywarrior]

16. I remember it well.

Yeah, I guess it goes back to that.

[tismyself]

17. That event

was probably the first time it crossed my mind that grown-ups were a myth.

[graywarrior]

19. Exactly.

It was my first WTF moment

[tismyself]

20. I want

my President to be above the fray. I want him or her to be a hero, not a mere mortal. I want someone who is so impressive that I'd pass out if he or she shook my hand.

I do NOT want to see my President getting into a helicopter or disappearing to parts unknown when planes are flying into buildings.

[graywarrior]

22. It's so the time for a role model.

[tismyself]

23. yes it is

I want someone with a commanding enough of a presence that others would automatically sit up straight and be on their best behavior - not from fear of being carted off to Gitmo, but out of sheer respect.

[old mark]

21. From George Washington to George W Bush and you have to ask?

[struggle4progress]

25. Wasn't this question asked and answered decades ago?

For example, people back in 1968 faced the following dilemma: Should I vote vote for Nixon and support the Vietnam war -- or should my friends and I gulp down handfuls of hallucinogenic drugs and party naked in the fountain downtown with flowers in our hair? Anybody with a lick of sense sees immediately what a sane person would do, right? And yet Nixon won. QED

[Sebastian Doyle]

26. I had to vote "maybe"

I'll be able to give a definitive yes or no answer exactly one month from now.

[Lorien]

27. America was always a bit loony

it was settled by religious extremists who were too wacky for their home countries.