Americans in general are entirely out of touch, cut off by two oceans from experiencing the rest of the world, thereby trapped in an echo chamber. Case in point: American gun debates are 100% self-referential, admitting no evidence from the outside world. There is little to no awareness of reason or causality, rather, a mythical attachment to shredded Calvinist postulates, at best.
Speaking, of course, of the USA as do Americans of other nations, taking its salient features of the day as characteristic of the whole. Fair practice, then.
American vocabulary is fully Orwellian, with people such as Trump using contradictory word salad (Dems are communists and fascists, OMG!). Then there are the so-called "Libertarians", known as tax dodgers in sane countries, who are now mute witnesses to the end of the liberty they so disingenuously defend. This is an undereducated, overstimulated population fixated on wealth and power, the American Dream, no place to look for sane and stable people.
The spectacle that is the USA, out of touch with factual reality, is both frightening in a Third Reich sense, and hilarious in the Keystone Cop tradition.
