Originally Posted by Redgirl

I said I was moving to New Zealand if Bush got re-elected (sorry, Canada's too fucking cold for me!). I was mainly joking, but I am truly scared of what another 4 yrs of Bush means for our country. And it's not so much that my guy lost or whatever, it's the mindset of a people who would vote for such an obvious idiot that really troubles me. It's the ethnocentric attitude of Americans that we are de facto better than everyone else and that it's somehow our responsibility to make every country just like us. Why do so many people here believe that?