Apparently there are those who take issue with my rebuke of the American people for the depressingly banal state of our culture.
Though I say it is the malleable herd that is ultimately responsible for the religious primitivism and anti-intellectualism manifest at the highest levels of government others aver it is our "leaders" who should be held accountable for the current state of affairs.
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