We screwed up in this election, but I'm sick of the rest of the world telling us how fucking stupid we are. See comments to take your medicine.

We failed to pass prop 19 in Cali, which would have legalized MJ in one of fifty American states. Even if it had passed we had yet to see what the federal government would have done with that. Oh, and unless you live in Portugal or The Netherlands, it's illegal in your country too, so chill the fuck out with the lecture.

If you are from Canada, The streets of your largest city turned into a warzone this summer. Your government is so in bed with ours that they extridited a man who had never done anything illegal on American soil to face 5 years in an American federal pen. You've got some great, progressive leaning cities (so do we, btw), but your great white north is just as full of insano right wingers as our midwest. It's not like you immediately turn liberal if you cross the border from Alaska to Yukon. Oh, and you still recognize the Queen as your head of state. And your football league is fucking ridiculous.

If you live in Britain, you just had the opportunity to set a shining example of progressivism for the world by electing a Lib Dem majority and making the brilliant Nick Clegg your next prime minister. Instead, you moved from left to right and gave parliament back to the conservatives. Oh yeah, you also gave them a larger majority than Tony Blair's Labour party ever had. You also have failed to take a serious role in the European economy by resisting converting to the Euro. You're still clinging to your glory days of empire in the Falklands and Northern Ireland, and you share responsibility for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. You still have troops engaged there.

The rest of Europe is suffering from Islamiphobia, just like we are. There are right of center parties in control of several major European governments. No one except for Turkey (which has its own boatload of social problems is doing a damn thing about Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank. No one is stepping up to become a major world power the way that the US did after WW2.

So before you start a new thread calling Americans retards or idiots or whatever else you've thrown around, take a look at your own government, your own social problems, and your own failures to move in a progressive direction before you take your frustrations out on us. Remember, we are not the only country to fail and regress. We're just the most recent.