After due consideration and discussion with Breanna on Facebook, I realise I have been going on a bit about those dang Americanese...I'm not going to say any more about them. the 'singularity of experience' that bonds both Americans and Australians is not cultural at all, nor racial, nor traditional, it is that the Americans are about to choose the worst or second worst of themselves to be their President, and we have already elected our worst parasites here as Prime Minister and Opposition leader. Roll on brave new world, roll on.

I recall Charlie Chaplin when faced with the horror of Adolf Hitler in Germany noted...'but don't forget the positive side. He will die one day'. it is a potent truth that can obviously be gladly applied to Trump, to Clinton, and here to our "Leaders"  also.