The only thing worse than the government these days -- if such is possible -- are those portions of the populace to whom this government owes its allegiance.

This verdict is from America and about the Bush administration, wouldn't you have guessed? :-) I dare add the following: These days? Any day, basically! Possible? It is possible! And it has been going on since a while, since times immemorial actually, and now, thanks to the increased population of the world, it is more visible anywhere than ever, from St. Peter's Place in the Vatican State today till Protestant Sweden all year round and most any other place you could put your finger on on a map of this earth (even the moon included already and soon Mars and Jupiter), with politics and religion intertwined as some may think only fundamentalist Islam could have it. No, those majority "portions" can have it ~~ and are