[TheWickerFan]

Originally Posted by ZombieDrone

If you don't mind my asking, how long has your husband been in the US?


I have to agree that America seems, as a European, a distinctly right-wing place. The Republicans are a centre-right pary Stateside, but the policies by European standards are rather firmly to the right and many issues like gun control or abortion are much bigger and more polarised issues in the US than over here.

Again, as a liberal and a democratic-socialist in the UK, I'm fairly mainstream in beliefs politically, but I think I'd probably get attacked by some people in the US and called a "leftist Commie scumbag" and I believe very strongly in Natoinalised Healthcare (the idea of having to pay for hospital treatment, literally on matters of life or death, just seems wrong to me) not to mention Nationalised Broadcasting (BBC)

Still, I like America for the most part just not the right-wing elements.

He's been here about 25 years now (he'll be 50 this year), so he's pretty used to the American way of things.