Animal farm and 1984 are warnings against allowing autocratic leaders to make decisions for society.

@SandWitch You're not entirely wrong. But, instead of "never be tolerant," might I suggest "always beware of." After all, they are human too.

@MarkPaul
"Never be tolerant" was intended to mean, never be allowed.

@SandWitch Well, that would deny a human right.

@MarkPaul
No, that would deny Americans a Constitutional Right, which means they'd have to amend their Constitution if they wanted the rest of the world to play ball with them, otherwise the USA remains as an isolationist nation who nobody wants to deal with.

@SandWitch Oh... I didn't realize you spoke for all of us.

@MarkPaul
Americans have already spoken for themselves and they did a damn good job of it in this past Election. Who I am speaking for are those of us outside the USA who are looking in at the clusterfuk that Americans have now created for themselves that will ultimately effect other countries around the world in a very negative way in the short term.

In the long term, the USA will be dealt with less and less economically, as well as politically by those countries which America's politics have screwed with by this latest Presidential Election debacle, which means that Americanism will fall by the wayside as every other country so affected now begin to distance themselves from the USA, or more specifically, distance themselves from the Trump Regime.

This is already happening in Canada, Germany, Norway and China as we speak and the first thing you'll see changing is the US Dollar no longer being recognized as the base currency for global exchange. That is why the selection of the President of the USA must be taken out of the hands of the American people because they are not competent in global affairs nor are they educated about the significance their country plays on the world stage economically which is now leading to American Isolationism because of their irrational vote to have Trump as their fearless leader.

@SandWitch Your view of the world is clouded by your ignorance, the colossal chip on your shoulder, and your illusion that you speak or represent the world at large. In the long term your personal anger will eat you up inside to the point you will not be able to contain yourself. In other words, you will become like "the American base" who seeks retribution, vengeance, and fantasy protection from a dictator who manipulates into telling you what you want to hear.

In short, you don't speak for any of us. You only speak for your own narrow and petty emotional interests fueled by propaganda from China, Russia, and North Korea.

@MarkPaul
MarkPaul, I feel sorry for your obtuse ignorance as an American who quite frankly is very good at representing your American base's self-interests. The only way that Americans will learn about themselves is from what others like myself will tell them as we look in through your windows and see abject poverty and crumbling infrastrcture within your country's borders. We don't have any of that where I live because we don't think like Americans over here.

Your problem Mark, is your unwillingness to accept your own truth when it's presented to you on a silver platter and you've always presented yourself that way, which means this time is no exception for you. That is why Americans like you either didn't vote at all and now live in total regret, or simply voted for Trump because they didn't have the education to hold a job that could afford them the cost of raising a family and they thought Trump could fix it.

I cannot help it that only 43% of all Americans ever became educated beyond the level of high school graduation, but when I see how Americans vote today, it makes me realize that Americans have become so deluded in thought that they actually believe that their President has so much power that he can actually control the cost of milk and eggs in their grocery store, it saddens me to think that such a grotesque number Americans have died on foreign soil defending such a delusional state of perverse American mindset that now hangs over your country like the dubious form of a mushroom cloud in a slow descent.