You know Tom, my German self!
"Hard line conservative thinking" = Heartless, Violence loving "German self"
Don't we all address folks with some Japanese ancestry and hint that they are really territory seizing, women raping, torturers? You know their "Japanese self"?
It's actually fascinating mute testimony to the power of propaganda and stereotyping.
But we all love Lindy anyway.
;-)
She's just lucky there aren't many Germans on these boards or she would receive an earful.