主题：美国精英对美国选票制度的批判。 -- dolong

So wonderful to know you just made all this up.

If it were even close to reality -- that U.S. trains are an internationallaughing stock -- that an Arizona Kyl puts lunatic partisanship ahead ofnational interest -- that most Congress people openly take money that all know are corporate bribes -- that U.S. schools die -- many American leaders live nowhere near any reality-based world -- well, good thing you just made this all up.

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I write this from my 15th floor seat overlooking the City of London. My frustration as an American abroad grows. I do love my country. I am abroad for many complex reasons (and no I don't regret marrying my Scottish wife)... but sadly I have to agree with most of what Mr Friedman says.

I work with Indians, Japanese, Europeans (and even a few Brits) and our (American) need to tell ourselves we are GREATEST has gone beyond a culturalstatement of national pride (in our geography, our industry, our consitution) and has become comparative to others and delusional.

I am deeply confused how we elect people with almost no understanding of theworld. How have we become suckers for bullies, shouters, those who take pride in not being educated, criers, liars and the like. Really? What will

historians being saying in 100 years of us?

Still, being abroad makes we appreciate SO much what America was, is and can be. So I won't give up and I will wish I was home everyday. But in the meantime I see Indian confidence rise, European cynicism become justified, and wonder, how can it change?

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