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> The difference is that the US has control over its own immune system, and could choose not to be allergic if it wished.

Nope. Democracies are constrained to the strategic analysis ability of the average voter. Absent a radical eugenics campaign, the average voter will continue to cast superficial, uninformed votes. Democracies die because they vote for their own destruction.

P.S. If the people had voted in a rational nuclear power plan, the Middle East would be just another backwater. The bin Laden clan would be just another bunch of towelheads squabbling over camels.




I was going to write up an attempt at some sort of cogent reply until I got to that "towelheads" bit.




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