I think language is a stronger unifier than culture, race, or shared values. The Romans had greek to create a unified empire, the Chinese had mandarin. You can conqueror a nation, but without a strong common linguist foundation, you will almost never have a single unified group of people...
People use driving Hybrids as a way to feel better than people who are not. Same thing goes about most religious people. I feel righteous and better than you because I am right with god and you are not.
Honestly, it fulfills the same role as a regular old religion does. Now it may be a true...
Well from my perspective religion spends most of it's time dealing with real world issues using god(s) and faith. The thing in our brains that makes religion work for people is the same thing that makes people feel good about saving the planet when they buy a green car.
There is as much proof...
Because:
1. Chemical weapons are extremely hard to use effectively, even today.
2. I don't know of a German Bio program.
3. Radiological weapons are vastly overblow in how much damage they do and I doubt they considered using them.
Everything the above poster listed is true/recently true about America and believe his/her point is "look how nutty these religious Americans are". If you are trying to make a slam, don't beat around the bush.
Very religious societies and democracy have co-existed for a very long time.
The USSR lost the cold war because command economies suck at making things cheaper. If they had conquered all of mainland Europe? The cold would never happen. The US would not have gotten involved in Europe and no threat from the US would mean no reason for Russia to fight a cold war against...
Hitler may have won WW2 if he had gone east first. Quite honestly if he had left Czechoslovakia alone he would have been able to take Poland without getting France and the UK into the war. Both France and the UK wanted to avoid war at all costs and only committed to fight once it became clear...
Lots of people mistake the former Iraqi Army as a military force. It was not. It was a keep Saddam's ass in power force. It was not bulit to fight trained troops and they were not going to die in the scale needed to slow down US troops.
Honestly given the people in charge I can't see anyway...
The left has always had a religion, it's call Marxism. It's largly been replaced by Enviromentalsim these days.
The environmental movement sounds a lot like Christianity these days, doing good works, remissions of sins (carbon), doing the right thing for God (Gaia), if you drive that hybread...
Most of the what is currently the south western US is was more like part of the greater Mexican empire. I don't think Mexico really started developing a strong identity until the American/Mexican war (Not an expert on this, please correct me if I am wrong).
So in order for Mexico to keep...
It's possible that you might have had the whole state revote, but just one area is unlikely. There was some screw ups in the heavy republican areas as well.
Final outcome? Who the hell knows. Gore came very close the first time, he very well may have won the second.
You might also have a...
It's not really anything you can get rid of without changing human nature. It's the same as gripping about the rich folks down the street because you know the rich folks are not going to hurt you over your grumbling.
With the US like the Brits before it people feel free to rip the USA because...
With the coming of unmanned airplanes you probably could create a bomber small enough to lunch and land on another airplane. We may actually see this in the next 20 years.