Reply #14: I agree on this [View All]

[mogster]

Europe is not hostile towards Americans in general.

The election campaign made it very clear that there's two sides to America today, and the internal struggle in the US is visible all the way over the Atlantic.

Let me repeat that.
Europe is not hostile towards Americans in general.

On the contrary, there is much sympathy and debate over the extraordinary WEIRD thing that's happening to the US, and how it reflects back on you people with an international mindset.

Unreflected, America-bashing, tripe exists, but is not the prevailing mood among Europeans. FOX, NRO and other rightwing pndits have a field day when they happen upon some, though, trying to brand Europe as 'enemy territory'.

I wonder why.

Even Repubs are welcome in Europe, contrary to what the neoCon/evangelical regime is trying to tell them, day after day.

You Americans must see yourself as the Europeans (and the world at large) see you:
As out of our stock, as our descendants. We all built America, because of large parts of our population has immigrated to the US in the previous century, and the century before that.

Four years ago, the world considered the US 'our finest product', the peak of what mankind could achieve. The Beacon of Democracy.

Now you're having a fascist outbreak, because all the glory naturally go to the head of the right wing oriented.
So what?

Remember who you're talking to. We're the Europeans. We've mowed over each other, invaded each other's countries and tried to exterminate each other for decades.

Don't be ashamed of your country. These things happens to every society.

Just fight it.