I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.
We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.