[andyfox]

The intricacies of politics in America were most recently publicly discussed by Geroge Bush and Nancy Pelosi, so the mental acumen to do so can't be too demanding.

If a particular Swede doesn't discuss politics in an apt or coherent way, by your reckoning, why would you postulate that all Swedes couldn't do so? That would be the same thing as my postulating that all Republicans don't know how to pronounce the word "nuclear" just because the President doesn't. Or that they all governors think Hubert Humphrey was a Communist because the governor of California said he was.