Far from it, envious - most Brits I know, and myself, have found the Americans I have met to be delightful people. When my brother was a merchant seaman he was astounded when they were in a US port and he got into casual conversation with a man in a bar and would be invited for dinner and to meet the family.
I do feel very strongly about the dangers from the fundamentalist Christians who are already managing to put back women's rights in several states, and also about the continuing racial prejudice which is reflected, as it is in England, in the comparative figures for stop and search, arrests, and sentencing.
Profiling about people the establishment sees as a threat is common to many countries. I had a friend who stayed some time at Greenham Common and several years later she was stopped for a minor motoring offence and the policeman told her he knew all about her 'communist' activities. I think we delude ourselves that we live in democracies.
