UK and US politics: the difference

The U.S. was not a participant in the Battles of Leningrad and Stalingrad to name just two.

I just have one thing to say to you Brits. The moment I wake up...... before I put on my make-up........... I say a little prayer for you........

American history is a drop in a bucket compared to the millenia-long history history of most European countries. What's your point? Do you judge Christianity for the fact that a thousand years ago they killed more people than the Muslim probably have in the last hundred years?

This is the stupidest argument I've every read from you, and that's saying a lot.

And all thanks to an old king who wanted a new lady!

Not so, dingbat!

We also have better chocolate.

IOW: "I think that people who agree with me are mentally healthier than those who hold to other opinions."

Standard Internet Delusion #1.

This is hardly a profound insight.

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I find I must disagree with this.

Most European nations, as to their current governmental structure, are less than a century old. A few of them are over one but less than two centuries old. A tiny handful are older than that, but none of them can honestly claim to have existed, as the current nations they now represent, for as much as 1000 years.

To be sure, there were people in the lands that now compose those countries, and their "history" is often tacked on to the history of that country, just as "English" and "French" history usually include what happened in the Roman period (long before the Angles made Britain into "England" or the Franks made Gaul into "France").

If you apply the same approach to US history, there were whole nations and peoples here, with their own civilizations, languages, and histories, for just as long.

But too many people unconsciously adopt the approach of European colonialism: The Indians were not "civilized" (meaning, their civilization was not built on technological gadgetry, like the Europeans) and therefore don't exist. American history thus begins in 1492, with the arrival of the Europeans.

Why is it reasonable to begin "English" history long before the Angles ever came to the island, or "French" history before the Franks ever crossed the Rhine, but not begin "American" history until the European invaders came here?

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Here's a profound insight:

Christianity is more popular the further away from Israel you get.

It ripples through time like an impact splash on the fabric of society. It has vectors, like a disease.

Much like David Hasselhoff. He's terribly popular in Germany.

Bad teeth and a penchant for buggery doesn't preclude you from ruling England?

My opinion is that no current democracy has really existed for more than a century though. Go back beyond that and there are very few nations that truly subscribed to the notion of all individuals being equal, and that, not a piece of paper is what I believe marks their birth.

No, wrong implication.

"I think that people who are mentally healthy agree with more of my opinions than those who are not mentally healthy." comes closer.