>>You certainly have mentioned a valid point. But the irrational part of Weltanschaung (no double "h") can also have negative effects of evolution in action on its subscribers. My father took active steps to be captured in WWII on the west front and spent some time as a POW in the states and not in the USSR and he did not enter the military led by Nazi speeches but as one way where he did not have any good options left. He was able to sire me ;-)
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>>A lot of the guys having something akin to jihadist mentality were culled from the gene pool in germany in the first half of last century. I just hope there are enough rational beings around if/when jihadist mentality comes visiting here to stop them from overrunning. (I do not consider the open end invitation of Merkel rational, but have no access to the base info she decides upon)
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>>> Weltanschaung (no double "h")
>Well, that's what you get for $.99!
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>>>My father took active steps to be captured in WWII on the west front and spent some time as a POW in the states and not in the USSR and he did not enter the military led by Nazi speeches but as one way where he did not have any good options left. He was able to sire me
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>During the 1980's I did computer work for a Germany steel manufacturer's US offices. Some of the men there had similar stories. One man told me that at the end of the war they were drafting 14 year old's and he was called.
>Like your Dad, he and his buddies surrendered to a US unit. They were terrified of the Russians, but also of the French.

You know what the English used to say during WW2 about the Americans in the UK. "Overpaid, oversexed and over here." ;)

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>JFK and Reagan were the only modern US presidents who tried seriously to project a national vision.
>Tens of thousands of young people flocked to the Peace Corps when JFK started it.
>Reagan seriously believed in American exceptionalism and did his best to project it.
>That's still a valid vision.
>We make a lot of mistakes here but this is still an amazing place.