Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.
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.