I really don't know why you care. I suspect because you want to pretend your smart or some shit. I'm sure you're better off worrying about your own country. We're not gonna default, the Tea Party is doing exactly what they were voted in to do. We're not socialists here. They're doing there best to ensure we don't give away the farm with free hand outs we can't afford.
You realize that the KOCH brothers poured 200million into tea party groups and your idea of them being anything but corporate shills here to do the bidding of big money is patently false.
I am attempting to appear smart by talking about something I have no formal education in while being a mod of a board I do..
I also care about others, I see a great injustice being done and I guess debating it is interesting to me. If your country goes the way of the tea party and big money, the world has no chance, zero. I guess particular existential thoughts concern me as well. I also argue about religion a lot, yet it doesn't effect me in any manner as my society is pretty secular. However, it effects many others and the world over so I argue it, perhaps I was too persuaded by Hitchens, I found his zeal for exposing idiots and poisonous ideas infectious.
Or maybe I am just a drug riddled twink, intent of being a bottom.