Dwight Stewart wrote:

"Dan/W4NTI" wrote:

Well put and accurate. Another thank you to the
1960s radicals that are now tenured in our
institutions of higher learning. Where the students
can't read and need a roadmap to find a history class.

Sadly, since so many flunked geography (or didn't even take it because so
few schools offer it anymore), a road map probably wouldn't help much
either.

Actually, John has an excellent point about the impression presented by
the media to those outside the United States. Because of crime and violence
on television, surely criminals outside the country are convinced America is
a criminal's dream come true - a place where false ID is easy to obtain,
where criminals can easily set up shop using fake business names, where
illegal guns are openly sold on the street, where drugs are sold on just
about every street corner, where few people report the criminal activities
they see, and where police are perhaps even criminals also.

The US has pockets of problems (mostly in cities that are managed by our
left wing -- which isn't really directly related to party per-se), but the
vast majority of America is quite tame. There is also a problem with
repeated, self-fulfilling victimhood that is damaging industriousness
and personal responsibility.

The pockets of problems in the US are quite different in many ways than
the problems in Europe (and elsewhere.) Interpreting the US with the
disinformation that is spewed by various ersatz-information sources, and
based upon the realities in Europe would lead to insanely incorrect
conclusions.

All too often, even in the US, with US news sources, the information is
overly sensationalized, and the size of various minor disasters and/or
difficulties are too often overblown. When true disasters or horrible
circumstances occur, then there is even a movement to 'manage' public
outrage or response. This tends to compress the public view of the
magnitude of 'news' items. Laci Peterson (for example) seems to get
as much news as the WTC attacks, even though the magnitude of the
individual acts aren't comparable.

John