As crazy as things seem in the US, the other English speaking countries have us beat in that department by a mile. What is wrong with these people?
Federalism makes it so that some degree of common sense has a chance, or is at least harder to squish.
It also helps that many areas of the U.S. (and even more so of Canada) are too sparsely populated to govern. If you don’t like conforming to urban norms, it is possible to get far, far, far away from a city in a way that most Europeans can’t even conceive.
You think so?
Sorry to disappoint, but our country is just as F****D as the UK.