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>>Neither party runs congress. It's open battle every day.
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>Seriously though Mike.
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>If you don't like the way your country is going/has gone why don't you get active about it. Join a party or start your own.
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>Remember fox news etc are like some nasty icing (frosting in the US ?) on a pretty decent cake.
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>I'll poke USA policies regularly but there's still a lot to admire. Any country that doesn't throw Mr Kuhn in jail for regularly advocating overthrow of its government can't be all bad.

You've got a point there ;-) The thing is -- and I like Bill all right due to common interests -- is his views aren't that extreme these days. He has a lot of company. Even 10 years ago if you had described the Tea Party movement people would have thought you were making it up. So many angry white people.