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Please stay in your own country and fix it. In my circle of friends, there are 3 new couples from England - complete libtards. I actually had to remind one that American values bred a generation of people who saved their sorry ashes, a couple times. Didn’t matter - we’re all rednecks. I asked why they came here and the replies were all the same, “For the job.” Just once I would like to hear one of them say they respected our American values. 0-3 on my scorecard.

Good post!

I think you have gotten hold of the issue in a way that is a little more useful than most of the thinking about GB and the rest of Europe that I read here.

For folks who are really dyed-in-the-wool multicultural socialists, they just can’t hear other world views. The liberal elites of GB and Europe are never going to budge as long as they can reassure themselves that their brand of wisdom is the only truth.

American liberals are facing the realities of national beliefs as they confront, after Scott Brown and the over-priced meeting in Nashville, the tea party movement. For months they belittled, scolded and minimized the movement, because it didn’t reflect their own sense of “obvious truth.”

In Europe and GB the elites are even more surrounded by a constantly reassuring chorus that everything is OK. They will not change their minds until they, too, have to confront a political movement that is actually out in the streets.

I only hope that Europe is strong enough for that process to play out without the bloodshed that has characterized European politics for so long.

Incidentally, your British friends (acquaintances?) will probably adapt to the core notions of American liberty in time.

some hints:

to explain opposition to abortion, say,”We love babies.”

to explain self-defense, say, “We share an American duty to assist in enforcing the laws.”

to explain aversion to the nanny-state, say, “We prefer to conduct our charity privately with our own money and our own effort rather than by confiscating other peoples’ money through taxes and delivering assistance through over-paid bureaucrats.”

My experience is that these lines work a little better than the other lines I have tried to use with friends from across the Atlantic.

Every time some bad news comes out of Britain, up pops some clown to declare that all Brits are commies and "we saved your asses twice" etc...

For a start, the title of the article should have tipped you off to the fact that 60% of us oppose the leftward drift in British society, and thus share your conservative American values.

How would it sound if, every time a news story broke about the VIP treatment of muslim terrorists under the Obama maladministration, we Brits accused the entire American population of surrendering to Islam, and taunted you for saving your "sorry asses" from the French, during the French & Indian Wars of 1754–1763?

Are you one of the millions of Americans who seem to believe that the USA declared war on Hitler in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor? The embarrassing reality is that three days after the Japanese attack, Hitler gave up waiting for such a response and himself declared war on the United States. We now know that he had been planning since the mid-thirties to attack America, and the development of the long-range bombers and V-2 rockets was proceeding rapidly toward that end (you didn't think Verner von Braun went to all that trouble just to bomb London did you?).

Britain stood alone against Hitler for two years while the likes of Henry Ford made money out of both sides and the likes of Joseph Kennedy prayed that Germany would invade Britain. While "self-interest" kept the US out of the fight against a fascist war machine which had America in its sights, Britain paid the price in blood, and afterwards in "reparations" of $4,336 million - the last repayment being made in 2006.

So this week's Mel Gibson Award for Anti-Britishness goes to "kdot."

For the record, I took a salary cut to come to the United States. If I'd known Obama was going to get into the White House I would have stayed at home with all those foreigners.