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"[...] most considerable deviation between the Great Britain's people and those of the independent nation across the Atlantic is the paucity of refinement. [Americans] have not the Godly polish that shines over man's most basic, Mongoloid nature. It does seem that they are narrowly of the White Race entirely, almost no more than they bodies of women and children the hold in bondage. The factions of the common, ignorant masses breed like rats to seize the affairs of their state. Their government furnished a distended swelling of vanity within each of them, and the trauma it has inflicted on upon their diurnal manner is profoundly evident. It would seem the more ignorant an American is, the more opinions they have on things that surpass their comprehension. If they remained impotent, this would have been inconsequential. But in the ochlocracy that is the United States, each one of them has as much authority as our King. And so [commoners] act on their asinine opinions, thrusting themselves into affairs they've not a notion about, obliquely maiming us all. And that is only when they are not candidly tormenting us, as they frequently scutter out of the cesspool of their country to harass the noble nations and thwart their deeds.

...It can be effortlessly surmised that this degeneracy is dually from the product of a lifetime of exposure to virulent fumes of the New World and of the state's failed trial with democracy. How could anything have transpired contrarily with a government that is forced to prostitute itself to those same degenerate masses? Of course, granting them that much liberty would have them tear off the arm that fed it to them. Presently, it is a country where treason is dutiful, where the majority of their leaders have left office in shackles. It is spit in the eye of everything virtuous and sensible. It would be exceedingly clement of us to use our Newfoundland, whose detachment from the rest of the New World has left it insulated from the degrading fumes, as a center for a naval incursion to batter that nation to such an extent where nothing can survive there. Then salt the Earth so that no turf can ever sprout from the residue of gunpowder." -Frances Trollope, in Domestic Manners of the Americans (1838)
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