@SilverDollarJedi It's true that much of the world paints Americans with a broad brush when it comes to their opinion of American foreign policy and American fundamentalism, generally because they have never lived in the US. My work took me abroad for several decades and I lived for several years in the US, my children all have dual American/Canadian citizenship and many of my friends are Americans, so I understand better than most that the US has been hijacked by fundamentalist christianity and corporatism. I don't paint Americans with the broad brush that most of the world does because I've actually been there and know that a majority of Americans are kind and decent people but they are under a lot of stress from the groups that are doing their best to undermine that kindness and decency. For the sake of my children who live in the US still and my American friends I am gravely concerned for the direction the US is headed in.