Our common language and a historical connection makes us think we have so much in common, that we our cousins in a family of nations.
If you meet an American on their home soil one is usually captivated by their self confidence and surety of purpose. They don't project the muddled conflict that we seem to have on virtually everything. The self belief and no nonsense approach comes from their catholic belief in being at the head of the table and that their destiny has led them from the isolation of pre second world war to a no holds barred position as world policeman and arbiter of all that is good and just.
The period of negotiation that went on between Churchill and Roosevelt to convince America to join in was based, in some part on the Americans distrust of the British with their claims to Empire and a history of redrawing the political map. Isolationist, the American need look no further than his front door to see the success of self contained Federalism working to the common good, based on a written constitution and economically healthy. The European ideal without nationalism.
From the almost messianic faith of Roosevelt, "in the rights of men" to today's unhealthy corruption of those rights when it is deemed in the national interest. The Whistle blowers, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, and the nearly forgotten, Julian Assange to the dreadful miss-justice of Guantanamo Bay is a portrait of the corruption that unfettered power brings.
The heavy handed military intervening in parts of the world where fundamentally they have no business other than self interest. The extremes of capitalistic avarice is seen in the boardrooms and, even more fearful, in the Republican Party with its self serving right wing agenda denying a whole swath of the American population descent opportunity.
England, pre-war, loathed by Roosevelt has become the America of today !!!
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