YES and NO is just a word but it have big meanings inside it.
Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.
What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!
When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.