Calm down

James Delingpole at the UKTelegraph explains what the "teaparty" backlash is about:


At stake is exactly the same thing the Greek alliance fought for when Western Civilisation was born at Salamis in 480 BC; the same thing we citizens of the West have been fighting for ever since: the right to forge our own destinies as free men and women....(and opposing) the stealthy encroachment of the Big Government into the most intimate recesses of our daily lives ...



As a BlueDog Demorcrat, I'm not sure I agree with all of this (should we eliminate public health measures? Protecting the vulnerable from the selfish who would abandon them, and protecting the public from greedy corporations is one function of the government), but it does explain why a lot of folks, especially immigrants, went to the US.

Oh yes: The flag is from the time of the US revolution, essentially telling England to keep out of our lives.