How The Rest of the World Sees the United States

I found this just now, and I thought I’d publish it in an effort to describe how ridiculous the U.S. appears on the world stage.

It’s possible that the garden-variety Trump supporters from the so-called “fly-over states” don’t travel abroad as much as people from the blue states along the coasts, and so perhaps they don’t know (or care) how America is perceived, but, in the main, people simply feel sorry for us.

We appear ignorant, confused, hateful, at each other’s throats, hyper-violent, and, perhaps most of all credulous: we’ll believe anything–and that “anything” keeps getting more absurd by the day.

We elected a clown, got the circus that comes along with it, and, to the world’s utter astonishment, seem unwilling to do a goddamn thing to change that.