"Brian Burger" wrote in message

It's part of the problem, I think, with international relations - US
politics is skewed so far right that the rest of us just can't relate
anymore.

My wife likes to remind me that America was founded and raised by religious
types who were so weird and to the right that they felt a need to escape
Europe to exercise their religious freedom. The Quakers, the "puritans"
(as we call 'em now)...

We were doing alright until the Republicans and the Democrats got their
hands on the controls. Now, the house is divided by two groups who are not
interested in American democracy, but in seizing power and money for select
constituents.

-c