Dr. Frank's What's-it

A sign of bad writing is to use lots of super-annoying, lack-of-vocabulary-indicating
hyphens in your letter.

A grumpy Guardian reader?

Is there any other kind?

Yeah. Because, like, we all know that that "constitution" thing is neither historical nor cultural.

Certainly, again, no mere "American" could have a grasp on American culture or history, compared to a random git reading the Guardian.

Hell, Reynolds is only a professor of law in the US. What could he know about culture or history or American law?

Such insight! Typical of the Guardian readership, God bless 'em.

Although Glenn does make some valid points, he's simplifying the religiousity argument too much. You could make the argument that anyone passionate about anything in the world has taken on a "religious"-type fervor towards it. But that's not really necessarily tied to purely Christian-driven ideology that dominates the right. In other words, saying that the left devotees approach things in a religious manner, whether based in Christianity or not, is entirely different than saying the right approaches things from a religious manner based on Christian values.

Also, I don't like historically shallow statements like "...one reason why politics in the US have become so much more bitter over the past couple of decades..."

I'm inclined to believe that there were equally bitter political moments prior to 1980 when viewed relative to current times.

Dr F - Wish you'd quoted the next line of that comment:

"The war on terror is a lie. America is not at war. This is a war for oil and profits."

Is it a war, is it a plane, no it's a war!