[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2013-10-01 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
The US political apparatus has still not completely recovered from the legacy of the slave system and resentments left over from the US Civil War. Some of the bad effects are constitutionally locked in, giving some of the worst people in the world effective veto power over everything, regardless of national majority sentiment.

[identity profile] noelmaurer.typepad.com (from livejournal.com) 2013-10-02 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. What he said. If the readers are really interested. Which I strangely suspect they are not ...