No kidding, Troll? ;-) Heh! That's amusing. I meant that in a good way, not being nasty. I can hardly imagine being married for many years to someone who totally disagreed with all my political ideas!....but I guess "love is blind", eh?

I've always been basically a democratic socialist, in a general sense, although I have no objection to capitalism either...as long as it doesn't run absolutely everything. I like to see a sort of 50/50 mix of capitalism and socialism in a society.

GUEST - If you think the Queen is "running Canada", my lad, you must be really high as a kite on something! LOL! She's still on our coins and paper bills, all right, and she visits us on very rare occasions to wave her little hand, but that's about it. We DO have a Charter of Rights, and it works just as well as your American Bill of Rights. Matter of fact, I feel freer here than what I saw in the good ol' USA when I lived there. Now if what you are saying is that the British Royal Family are tied in with a consortium of fabulously rich people who run all of western society....yeah...that I'll agree with. They're an important part of it. But it's that consortium of very rich people who control Canada, the UK, western Europe, AND the USA. I don't think the Queen is the boss of all of them. I doubt it. If she is, though, she runs the USA too, not just Canada.

Now take some of that stuff you're high on and spread it around, please. Don't be greedy. ;-)