THEY AREN'T WESTERN:

The Atlantic Divide : Americans and Europeans on religion, happiness, government, and war. (Karlyn Bowman, March/April 2008, The American)

When he visited the United States in the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville called the new nation ‘exceptional,’ by which he meant qualitatively different. Some of the differences he identified appear in polls today. Americans are more religious, more satisfied with their personal lives and their jobs, more wary of government, and more comfortable with the use of military force than are Europeans.

The only purpose served by pretending that we still have common interests is for the Left to try and import their secular rationalist rot here.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 5, 2008 6:24 AM