Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue

On Sat, 20 Apr 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:

In article <7c490eda-e041-8cdd-5bcf-5b886a32f65f@example.net>,
D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:03:26 +0200, D wrote:
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Do note that in europe the fashion du jour is to appoint children to
senior political office ...

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They tend to score higher on measures of democracy than the US does,
though.

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And lower on freedom.

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Depends.  If you look at the total percentage of population currently
incarcerated, the US is an order of magnitude higher than any European
country.

Oh how I would wish that europe in general, and sweden in particular, had more people incarcerated. Shootings and bombings by criminal immigrant gangs is sky rocketing in sweden and the police has lost control completely.

On the other hand, the US does have some interesting protections that
most European countries don't have.  That's mostly not a problem there,
but situations can be imagined where it might become one.
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It really is interesting seeing how much Americans are just plain afraid
of things in ways that Europeans aren't.

And the reverse I'd say. many europeans have trouble sleeping due to Donald Trump and americans being allowed to own guns.

--scott
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