(09-25-2018, 05:13 PM)robkelk Wrote: No, the world is not laughing at the United States of America. The world is laughing at Trump. The POTUS is not the USA.
We allowed him to be elected. Those who, like myself, voted against him nonetheless didn't do enough to prevent his election. Therefore we share a measure of the guilt for every wrong he commits.
My one comfort in this is that Germany, seventy-odd years after the downfall of its "strongman," is again an at-least-somewhat trusted and respected nation, possibly even the "leader of the Free World," if that's not France. So perhaps the U.S. can eventually come back. I no longer believe it'll be in my lifetime, and I doubt either of my nieces, thirty years old and twenty, will live to see it, either. But maybe their children will spend some of their adulthood in a U.S.A. that isn't deservedly an international pariah, North Korea with more resources.
... Assuming, that is, the rest of the world doesn't choose to rape our country for those resources.
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I'm a very forgiving person ... on Lord Vader's terms. "Apology accepted, Captain."