>>"in response to" = "attack"

... Unfortunately, mandotim, that's a great illustration of political dialogue in America today -- "If you don't agree with me, you must be attacking me." <<

Let's clarify a little. After reading his response, its pretty clear that Mandotim's first post is thinly veiled sarcastic attack on the US political system.

It is abundantly clear that this "Why not just let those with real power (media owners, bankers, arms manufacturers, very rich people and right wing Christian pressure groups) get on with it?" is thinly veiled attack on the US electorate.

In my opinion, the US electorate can be generalized to refer to American's in general and that Mando has implied that Americans are so stupid that they cannot see what some Mando playing Brit can in his opinion easily see (that the US government is so run by >>media owners, bankers, arms manufacturers, very rich people and right wing Christian pressure groups<< that the Presidency is redundant and pointless) is most certainly an attack.


And since the whole thing was in response to a question that Amos repeated, posed in an article in a UK publication, I think it is fair to say that Mandotim has said much more about his own short comings than America's.


While "If you don't agree with me, you must be attacking me.",may well be a mindset that some Americans have bought into, that is certainly not the case in this thread.