“We are them, and they are us.”
You mean we have a surveillance state, designed to completely oppress dissenting thought and speech? We should need a license to possess a TV set? We need to start having Sharia Courts? We should arrest guys like Pinochet and threaten to arrest Israeli diplomats? We need to surrender all guns, and the right to self-defense? And we should adopt the extremist “twaddle” of british Climate change initiative? And last,, we really should attempt to prosecute British soldiers for nearly unavoidable freindly fire incidents,, as they tried to do with our USAF flyers??
England even currently has 90 hereditary members of the house of lords! They still allow a person to inherit political power?!! And “we are them, and they are us”? Sorry, I just dont see it.
No, while as individuals, i might easily like a person from England, when evaluating governments, they are most assuredly not us.
Even Ike, though he had very close working relations with them, knew they were not to be slavishly followed. They were bitter at him for not supporting their moves in his administration in the Suez. They expect us to believe that we should see British world views as our own, and back them up with blood and treasure.
Hereditary lordships were abolished a few years back. The existing hereditary lords will continue, but they will be the last.
They still allow a person to inherit political power?!!
Why the exclamation marks? America allows people to inherit political office. Fact it, America allows people to buy political office. I know that's not how its supposed to work, but most assuredly it does