>Hilmar,
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>In Bolivia this sort of thing doesn't happen because there are probably trully important issues on the table, not the usual US BS.
That may, indeed, be at least part of the explanation. Here, people are worried about getting enought to eat, among others. On the other hand, well, I understand there is unemployment in the U.S. too, plus other real social problems.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)