"All good Americans wish to fight the representatives they have chosen. All good
Englishmen wish to forget the representatives they have chosen." -- G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America
Americans take pride in the fact that we elect our leaders and then spend most of our time putting them on blast. The English take pride in the fact that they have Kings and then spend most of their time and energy on talking about something else. Americans have elected officials in order to protect against nepotism and the English have a royal family to protect against dogmatism.
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