Every country on this planet operates like a loosely organized high school clique. They have another clique somewhere that they look down on, though in all likelihood they look down on all other cliques. Those people over there have some funny customs, hahaha, pathetic loser motherfuckers.
People organize the same way no matter what, churches, offices, swingers’ clubs, army units, all are full of little sub-groups of insecurity doing their best to look down on somebody else, because who you feel superior to defines who you are, that is, if you have nothing else to define who you are.
Cliques are where insecure, insignificant people try to feel cool by associating with other people, because even if you can’t really do anything well you can still avoid feeling like a loser if there is more than one of you. This is exactly what “national pride” is. Patriotism is taking the weakness and pathetic nature of the unambitious individual citizen and elevating it to the national scale, so that slackers and losers can feel like somebody because they were born here.

Emmanuel-Blagojevich scandal: Bill Ayers. If the Republicans would use an tangential, inconsequential relationship to make out that Obama is a Marxist America-hating terrorist then they will stop at pretty much nothing. If Obama so much as trips while walking it will be made out as something far worse, like maybe he was drunk or high on cocaine. Everything will be tied to the themes of terrorist, corrupt, and elitist. This is not to say that Obama may not have skeletons in his closet, just that for the next four years the GOP’s mudslingers will claim that he has nothing but skeletons in all his closets.
unique to everybody else in the world. When you are in a conversation with a parent and their child is somewhere near and they pause the conversation to talk to their child what they really want is to direct your attention to said kid and for you to compliment them on it. Parents seem to have no clue that there are many people in the world who have no interest in reproducing and even less in their offspring.