I think the main thing with the Euro mindset towards American 
is similar to American electoralism: theatre.
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It was a pretty painfully liberal conversation all around, so I mostly stayed out of it. I feel like it was probably enough to just make clear who I voted for instead of aggressively going after every single bit of nonsense they said.
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Incidentally, yesterday I watched the Boondocks episode "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman" and plus ça fuckin change I tell you hwat
Great episode
"This child's indifference was so great, it made me want to take a razor and slit my own throat"
I'm certain a huge percentage of Americans don't know there are third parties. And I bet a sizeable number of Americans think Bernie is "third party". More than 50% of Americans read below a 6th-grade level. And - of course - Americans who can read at higher level usually don't. We aren't nation of readers either.
I was going to quote the literacy in the United States Wikipedia page but I decided not to. I noticed two things that are funny together.
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I assume the text is intentionally written to be obtuse, annoying, and unclear because it damages so much of the American mythos. The text is even worse than when I visited the page ~6 months ago.
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The average American would never, ever read more than a paragraph of that or similar crap because they can't.
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Snopes is a very American site and can take forever to get to the point but they did answer their main question simply.
Do More Than Half of Americans Read Below 6th-Grade Level?
Do More Than Half of Americans Read Below a 6th-Grade Level?
This claim is true
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