Europe isn't more left wing than the United States. This is just a popular myth Americans tell themselves. It's just more - of everything because of a longer history. There's nothing happening in America that didn't have an earlier cycle in Europe. You'll evolve the same policy solutions to the same social problems by convergence.

Family relations don't matter - but if you're playing that card then I'm related to William Donovan.

If you're reading this dang - you owe me a beer.