And I will take the word of me and the several hundred thousand other Americans that I know and have lived with for several decades, including a number of reputable and moderate ACTUAL politicians, professors, journalists, etc., over a European who has only studied us in books. My negative experiences with the right are not personal, they are observable. I studied this at university myself. Reading a Nixon biography and worshipping Kissinger doesn't give you insight into the modern American conservative movement. Those guys are 40 years out of date and Nixon would be HATED by the US conservatives today (he appeased China, started the EPA, etc.). I don't doubt you're a smart cookie that's read plenty of books on the subject, but you don't learn to fish from a book, you learn to fish from someone that knows how to fish. Read all you want, I LIVE the US political experience, so I will appreciate it if you would refrain from endlessly telling me you know my country and people so much better than I do. I do not come here and presume to tell you what it is to be Bulgarian and how your nation's people behave and think.
My "negative experiences" were observing them steal elections, the gay marriage ban, etc. It's observation of political motives and behaviors. I'm not ranting because some conservative stole my lunch money once.
And FTR, let me point out the obvious... I may not be totally objective (neither are you, clearly) and I am not an observer. YOU are an observer, in that you have no experience here. You observe, you read books, and you think it makes you an expert on lives you never lived. I do not observe this country, I live it. Those people whose books you've read? They also LIVED over here with their subjects. They EARNED their experience and views. You soaking them up like a sponge does not give you a fraction of their insight and wisdom, despite your claims to have equal footing to them and higher footing to me and the dozen other American posters here who have repeatedly pointed out why you are wrong and your asserted knowledge of the US right-wing is glaringly inaccurate.
I've had lunch with US Senators in the dining hall at the US Capitol building (maybe you recognize it from the movies), worked on judicial campaigns, spoken on television about the Tea Party movement when it was just a grass roots thing and spoke personally with FBI agents abotu multiple issues. I listened to US Supreme Court justices like Scalia and Roberts that came to my law school to talk. I wrote about the Taliban and its dangers before 9/11 and I researched the American Christian political movement before Dubya made it cool. You can take those books you read halfway around the world and do whatever you want with them, because I'm the one living and making the histories that you only read about in biographies sir.
