Greg:

You’re literally the first engineer I’ve ever met to have any political pretenses.  And I just spent a year-and-a-half working intimately with three engineers and consulting regularly with many others.  You’re literally the first. 

Perhaps it was just because most of them were Indians, Arabs, Chinese, or European.  Immigrants just don’t feel comfortable with politics.  But, then, the trend extends beyond that group, anyway. 

(I’ll decode what I just wrote: I don’t believe for a second that you actually cry during ‘God Bless America’.  And if you do, you’re faking it.  But it’s cool that you’d say something to endear yourself to the posters here at THT, many of whom love nothing more than to slavishly worship the government and the government’s most tax-eating, powerful arm, the military.  Score one for you in the THT popularity contest!)