There is always this difference between the People and the State. By and large, we Europeans do not automatically equate Americans, as individuals, with those terrible people in Washington DC. We know that a lot of you voted them in - which we find hard to understand - and we might also feel that many of you are blind to the direction the US society has taken. But in the end, people are people.

So just be you - if you disgree with an argument, say so. I personally have read most all of what you have written here - even if I haven't commented. You probably have more readers than you realise ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken