I envy you, Americans. Your geopolitical position - a remote continent, borders with Canada & Mexico only (rather non-hostile countries) - gives you freedom of making all those petty disputes, Reps vs Dems etc., while the enemies are far away. Besides, even the most liberal democrat is not yet a communist, nor are the most stalwart rebublicans a neo-nazi. So it's a win-win situation, even your bad unemployement rate is twice as good as in Europe.

When we lost ourselves in internal quarrels throught the history, our enemies (read: neighboring states) always ganged up on us. Don't let this happen to you...