[CyberCowboy777]

She is an idiot.

She is referring to something she likely heard from some friends at a party.

Nationalistic is the words she is looking for, the implication being that we are becoming overly nationalistic (ie. Germany circa 1935).

It is a wildly liberal intellectual theory bandied about every time a little Patriotic jigglism pops up in the media or along main street USA or when a Republican is in the White House.

[Maurkov]

Jigglism?

[AmishDude]

I've thought about this for some time. What's going on is the difference between America and Europe. There is much less of a filter between leaders and the populace here than there.

So, we have that an elitist not only never has to associate with the lower classes, but never has to worry about being governed by them or even elites who share their sentiments.

The Labour party could never have a Howard Dean. Not that they could never have somebody with such goofy views (they have Galloway, after all) but they could never have anyone that the party disapproves of so much. The party leaders choose candidates as well as the ministers. There are no primaries in Britain.

And Britain is the most democratic country in Europe. Look at France. The National Front exists because there is no major political force -- party or otherwise -- that can talk about certain issues. You can get fined for hate speech.

Even anti-Americanism in Europe is a way for leaders to distract from their own failures. If ordinary Europeans only realized that their leaders don't hold them in much more esteem than the crude Americans, they might feel differently.