"ten bucks says she thinks Palestinian suicide bombers slaughtering children to "free Palestine from the Zionist occupation" isn't "over patriotic" at all."
Good point! It had not occurred to me but I surely wouldn't bet against that one.
Only Socialist type elites can even afford to live over there and there is adequate protection for them but a daughter doing college studies over there does not feel all so safe and wonderful about that nation. The weakness of the dollar and the exchange rate costs virtually double the per pound tariff.
In Ireland, UK the thievery and thuggery are enormous problems and anyone can bear the brunt of the attacks but tourists and their rental cars are an excellent easy target. The police say it is because of the drug problems.
If this silly liberal favors that atmosphere to one of patriotism she has been deceived by her compatriots and deserves to reap the result of her deception. I am desperately sorry for her child.
Hollywood is an echo-chamber. They're a rootless bunch, comfortable only with their own kind. She'll move to London and hang out with Madonna et al., never meeting anyone not pre-approved, never having any idea what's going on around the corner, down the street.
She'll go to safe places through guarded social tunnels.
She'll love being "an ex-pat," having fawners ask her how she manages to be so different from "most Americans." And she'll beam, and shrug with ostentatious modesty.