re: #104 Obdicut

But that’s not at all true. The choice was compromised at every level, it was by no means a free one by the individuals in the nations involved. Please read one of the books I recommended.

I will try to read as suggested, but I maintain that where you think I meant something like “a free democratic choice”, I did not.

I meant a cultural/religious choice at a broader level. They were convinced that they could not live together with those of different religions and while they were no doubt manipulated by political power players, the fundamental differences were paramount. One could draw a kind of analogy with the current state of politics in the US, where a so called Tea Party has taken over what was once a reasonably sensible group of free enterprise proponents and has now become a bunch of religious fanatics afraid to argue anything among themselves.