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[Aractus]

Hopefully one day Americans will wake up and realise they are the 'leaders of the world', and should look to other countries for inspiration to improve their tumultuous society.

No doubt you'll happily volunteer to school us bumpkins.

I think you lose the seriousness in my post. The USA sees itself as "the leader of the free world" and therefore doesn't feel it should have to take advice from the rest of the free world. But the "free world" does not look to the USA as an example, in fact here in my corner of it one of the most popular political statements is "we don't want to be like America". That is usually to do with things like health, education, or government debt. But it also applies to prisons, rehabilitation, and the criminalisation of so-called "victimless crimes" like prostitution.

I'm not saying you should look only to Australia. But to Europe, countries like Iceland (where the first ever fatal police shooting occurred in 2013). The killing was a last resort, after they had tried to incapacitate the man with tear-gas and he still managed to shoot back at police (injuring two of them). And to Canada. And to Mexico too. And you should look to ROC (china) for inspiration with foreign policy.

You all know very well that if I had my wish, all nine nation-states that possess nukes would be irradiated off the face of the earth permanently. But I am comforted by the fact that 7 out of those nine have never actually used them at war-time - guess who the two asshole nations were that actually decided to detonate them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I rest my case.