If you really watch the thing they both (as I have allways said) will be trash talking the other.

That hasnt changed about politics since democracy was adopted by the greeks 400years before the common era. Heck the trash talking part probably started long long before that even. It is certianly not only present in the states, its just that the media grandizes it by giving it a viable platform to thrive.

The impression of americans as being self superiour or condensending to the world is a cultural phenomena left over from the nationalist leanings many countries adopted in the preceeding ages that lead eventually to ww2 and the subsiquient cold war it happens with every country that reaches out to control others in an imperial fashion.

Go back to the 17 and 18 hundreds, pretty much anytime before ww2 and people said the same thing about brittian and france when they were at the hieght of their empires.

The sad thing is that America appears to be making many of the same mistakes its two primary political parents made when they were trying to run things.

We sure didnt set out to do it this way when we came out of our isolationist period to help save europe and the pacific in world war 2.



The road to perdition is paved with good intentions.