Sure I ' ll trade now <| sep |> The U . S . Terms are typically teakettle and coffee pot . I guess you could just call the latter the pot , but , these days , that ' s probably too ambiguous . <| sep |> Yes , I was being facetious <| sep |> That ' s some truly manichean thinking . Sometimes certain ideas or persons are , you know , actually really bad . There ' s no law of the universe that says the Republican Party is required by fate to nominate someone reasonable and wellmeaning . Nor the Democratic Party , for that matter in the mirror universe where the ' 60 s didn ' t create a silent majority reaction , there might be a Democratic Party running Maoists for office , and that would be kinda terrible . At least , it would be since Maoists are , you know , authoritarian , tribalistic leftists .