founded by rebels against unjust authority. We'll put up with a lot of bullshit, but we have our limits, and thankfully our founders had enough foresight and enough disagreement among them to draft a founding document that gives us a modicum of protection from the whims of would-be autocrats...

for the record, I'm sorry if I upset you. I've no doubt the Germans are good people, but it's hard to ignore how often they let themselves be ruled by tyrants, even though I can understand some of that comes from cultural history, given the various empires that tried to (edit) conquer(/edit) them in the past..