[nicollo]

Thanks for your note, and fun on this thread. I just wish I had time for it all.

De Tocqueville can be taken in so many directions. I maintain his confidence, his enthusiasm, and his fears. Too bad his contemporaries in Europe didn't learn from him.

[PsyOp]

"Too bad his contemporaries in Europe didn't learn from him."

They did. They came here, and now they call themselves Americans.