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the hutus and the tutsis used machetes to massacre each other.

power to the people.

well no, not really no, hm, but the mentality in a large part of the united states is that you don't expect the government to provide for your needs-- you provide for yourself.

this is something that europeans and people in large american cities have a hard time wrapping their brains around-- that a lot of the country still has the "pioneer mentality"-- people who want guns, large trucks, no taxes, cheap gasoline, and their own private suburban tract. of course this is all based on a number of convenient fictions, but that's how it goes.