@larand ah ha - do NOT get me going on the left / right variations of the US v UK - I think maybe some of the UK's Tories might be accepted into the Dems tent :-)

I don’t regret my Thatcher vote - because the other choice was 'Jim' who was only one of many Labour voices at the time, including people like Tony Benn and Michael Foot, which I think pointed to a potential mess in Govt. had they got it in. Maggie was a least clear and leading.

But I guess we will never know, unless we find a way through to the other worlds in the multiverse.

As for better choices ... would be good - but really - don’t you think that anyone who runs these days must have serious character flaws by definition? It's almost a corollary of Catch 22.