. . . . than the British Parliamentarian Model of Governance. Afterall, we are living in the Western Civilization of Rome and Greece, not the incorporated, Capitalist, Protestant Model of Monarchy with a showcase parliamentary democracy that is the English example.

Besides which, the Italians know how to form and ditch national governments far better than most folks around the World, Americans included, when those governments no longer serve the interests of Jeffersonian or Christian ideals.

I wonder how British transplants to America, like Christopher "Footman to the Powerful" Hitchens -- realize the debt America owes to the example of democratic values, institutions and governance offered to early American settlers by Native Americans?

As far as Abraham Lincoln is concerned, his monument on our National Mall serves as an apt example of the GIANT-ism which has infected our American National Governance. Lincoln paved the way from American Agrarian Society, towards our Industrial, Urbanized Modernity, without anticipating either Feminism, or Corporatism.

Strangely, modern day Republicans here in Manchester, New Hampshire, inured to their "car culture" as they are, cannot figure out how to fully fund a rudimentary public bus system within this Queen (of Heaven) City, let alone extend the bus lines to a neighboring town -- (call it Regional Cooperation?) -- or Heaven Forfend -- a commuter light rail system between Manchester and Boston.

This, from a City and a State, that figured out long ago, not only how to move logs down the Merrimack River from northern forests to sawmills far downstream; that converted water power cleverly into factory power before electricity was available. This City has its origins firmly planted -- (like Paul Bunyan's feet bestriding a (Merrimack) River -- as the original, grandly designed model for American industrialized, corporate culture. William and Nackey Loeb of the Manchester (New Hampshire) Union Leader Newspapers are no anacronism. This Republican City is still run today by the heirs and assigns of the Amoskeag Corporation. So much so, that even so-called New Hampshire Democrats, such as Jeanne Shaheen and John Lynch (New Hampshire Governors) and Bob Baines (Manchester Mayor) are truly "Republican Lite" politicians.

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, indeed!