Re: England and us
 

I find the relationship interesting. In many cases they make a mistake first and we follow them down the same mistake. Sometimes we make a mistake and they follow us.

So many examples. Simple stuff. England invented the inch, the foot, the yard. Tools, England, I used to have an English car for tools you needed Whintworth, Metric and SAE standard (American). England went metric and we are still holding the foot.

Aside-BREXIT. England was one of the last to enter the common marke and they never fully went to the euro they stayed on the British pound sterling. Which by the way was replaced by the US dollar for international trade because the dollar was backed by specie-gold or silver.

Perhaps, like any kid we seem to need to make the same mistakes over and over again. I think we've all seen signs WET PAINT and needed to test, touch the wet paint, to see it the sign is correct. Our current fair wages, fair taxes etc, was tested in England long ago with strikes in Manchester.

My point is a bit of reading of history, there is no need to make every mistake like the result is a new mystery novel. Who did it and how painful it was can be simply read and learned from.

A good indication of how the country thinks can be seen in the Nielsen ratings.

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"Spitting Image" was a UK show using puppets for political humor around the Thatcher era - hilarious - check out some on You Tube

Spitting Image - Thatcher's Cabinet (S01E03) - YouTube

of course, it helps if you know something about the characters being portrayed