Years ago, Beyond the Fringe did a sketch in which one Briton is explaining American politics to another: "There's the Republican Party, which is the equivalent of our Conservative Party, and the Democratic Party, which is the equivalent of our Conservative Party."
It seems to me that practically every Englishman to the left of Oswald Mosley is a socialist by U.S. standards. And any nation where Warren Buffet and Barack Obama can be regarded as pinkos is clearly a bird that flies on one wing, and not the left one.
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