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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Please, don't lump pan's paranoia (or WinchesterAA's for that matter) in with the rest of America. I don't think I've ever met a single person in real life who has expressed such paranoid thoughts openly (barring, you know, the homeless guy down the street).
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Your experience as an American is that this people are fringe minorities. From the outside looking in, however, this is what we see. We see the paranoid, the tea partiers who are terrified of some vague socialist demon, we see the extreme and bizarre rhetoric of death panels and wild accusations of socialism, fascism, Nazism.
I used to wonder if this was an isolated thing, but I'm becoming more convinced that it's a product of American sensationalist media not presenting the moderate point of view. It's gotten to the point that for those of us on the outside there doesn't seem to be anything in the middle, and it becomes something of a farce.
This is the face your nation is presenting to the world.
I would consider it a problem.