"gatt" wrote in message
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"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)...

Except that neither the Quakers nor the Puritans had much to do with the
founding of America beyond being some of the earliest settlers.