Is it bad to be hopeful? While standings frozen and looking to the other side on a screen*. 

I have written before that American politics is more important to me than the politics of any other country. I always say: if America farts, we all have to smell the stink. That said, politics over there is not left enough for my taste, but I am still happy that the wannabe Führer will have a hard time and the centrists are hopefully winning, that is at least a tiny step in the right direction.

*We had a band in the Netherlands, Het Goede Doel, that made a song about Belgie. One of the lyrics is about America: And when it comes to America, that country doesn’t really exist. I’ve been on a plane there, but maybe we landed in the Truman Show, and who knows, maybe all we see about America is what we see on the screens. It’s there to scare us. One thing I know for sure, it is definitely a show they perform for us.