US Looks Really Screwed up from the Outside Looking in

[Grand Mal]

That's certainly one expression of what's going on and is consistent with the point I was making.

Full points for diplomacy.

 

[katzgar]

Just looking at the political climate in the US these days, people like me on the outside are wondering what the hell's in the water there and when is the insanity going to stop?

Some issues of note:

1. Two Presidential candidates that everyone seems to pretty much hate and nobody wants as President.

2. A Supreme Court that is totally dysfunctional, unable to honor their oaths of office because too many believe they have a higher obligation to ideology and thus all votes are deadlocked and nothing is settled.

3. An obsession with guns and gun violence that never ceases and each side on the political spectrum use the issue to pander to their followers with nothing gained.

4. An adolescent Congress where grown men and women sit on the floor in a hissy fit because they lack the power to force others to their will on an issue where there is no consensus in the general public for any particular action.

There are others, but that should set the tone.

To my friends in America, aren't you a little embarrassed by what is happening in your great country??

the japanese and the germans thought so too but they had to learn the hard way. what is going on in the US is the same as Brexit and the same as what is going on in other yer a peein countries.

 

[CanadaJohn]

the japanese and the germans thought so too but they had to learn the hard way. what is going on in the US is the same as Brexit and the same as what is going on in other yer a peein countries.

To some extent, yes, but nothing like in the US - US does everything to extremes.

 

[katzgar]

To some extent, yes, but nothing like in the US - US does everything to extremes.

nope, not true at all.