Wow.

My father was, as near as I can understand, an actual Nazi, and I lean pretty hard left, but he never said anything close to as nasty to me as your mother said to you. In fact, for all his faults and despite all the arguments, I’m 100% certain he loved me.

Also, just for the record, I’m going to read this:

She frothed at the mouth and started barking at me.

As literal truth, as in she started barking like a dog.

That’s President Pedophile to you!

We don’t want people to forget that we elected a pedophile.

Twice.

Didn’t remove the valve. Just loosen it. The tire will still lose air, but it will be harder to know why.

Ok, that’s kind of what I expected.

So, one way to look at the US system is that the US as a whole corresponds in a way to the EU. Individual states in the US would correspond to EU countries.

Of course, there are certainly differences. But in some ways individual US states are treated as separate, sovereign entities. The US Constitution leaves all management of elections up to the individual states. There aren’t really federal elections (well, apart from the electoral college, but let’s not get into that). There are state elections to fill federal offices. It is seen by most as inappropriate for the federal government to get involved in US elections.

When you ask why the US doesn’t have a national ID, it’s like asking why citizens of EU countries aren’t required to have an EU ID. It’s more appropriate to ask why individual states don’t have state IDs.

As you can imagine, there are 50 different variations on what the rules for such an ID would be.

However, the biggest issue with having any kind of required, state-issued ID is resistance to giving the government more ability to track us. This despite the most virulently anti-surveillance people regularly updating their most intimate details in Facebook and Instagram.

Can you explain how it works in the EU?

Does the EU specify the rules for how voting works in EU countries?