I just wish more of your fellow Americans could see it as you do.

I certainly wouldn't choose to bolt to the UK if I were you.
When many of your politicians/policy makers fart, many in our current government decides that they like it and want to emulate the smell!

 

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It's the same for my country. But we all should be careful not to mix up the common people with our respective government.
The americans and the english and the german... just don't exist. What we see from outside is, how the governments acts and, mainly, what the press is willing to tell us.