Embarrassing To Be An American. We Are Looking Like Fools To The World.

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20. We do indeed look like fools. BIG ones, this time, too

Not because the Republicans have nominated a dangerous ignorant to high office. They do that all time. Joni Ernst, Louie Gohmert, e.g. But this time, they have nominated a very dangerous and thoroughly ignorant egomaniac to the highest office in the land. The world knows that Republicans sometimes put up guys like that, but usually only for primary entertainment distraction. This time, their distraction became the main attraction. The world asks how can a party that nominated Dwight Eisenhower for the presidency can, 64 years later, nominate Donald Trump and expect to be taken seriously around the world. It freaks them out that Trump is taken seriously in the USA by any sighted person who doesn't need help being led to a bathroom.

I'm in Stuttgart for my job today. From the main train station, I took a taxi to my hotel. I correctly guessed that the driver was a Pakistani. I greeted him in my 2 words of Punjabi. He smiled, complimented me on my accent and asked how often I had been in Pakistan. I explained that I had never been in Pakistan or anywhere near it. I said I was from the USA and met lots of Pakistanis living there, so it wasn't a difficult guess. Big smile. One less Muslim Pakistani that will be inclined to hate us without ever having met an American.

We've had weak and useless Republican candidates before, but since Eisenhower 64 years ago, their caliber has gone way downhill. Even France's useless Hollande, a bureaucrat dba as "socialiste," isn't down at Trump's level. But look at the constituency that chose Trump. Ask any typical Republican to even find Pakistan on a map, and I'll bet he or she won't even know on which continent to look. Then ask them how important might Pakistan be, anyway? Top fifty countries in population? Top forty? Top thirty, Top twenty? Top ten? Top ten would be correct, but my guess that the percentage of Republicans who know that (or that they possess nuclear arms) is around the same percentage who think Ben Carson still has a chance to beat Hillary as a write-in.