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Originally Posted by August
Europeans have been gleefully predicting our imminent national doom ever since our inception.
Remember we're mostly populated by the descendants of people that they persecuted and drove out. We're their hated dregs and those huddled masses yearning to breathe free who rejected Europe for a fresh start in the New World.
Unfortunately like jilted lovers our longevity and success as a nation is an ongoing irritation to them and some of them can't stand it which is what you mostly see here in this forum.
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No doubt their own media drives that opinion. It very effectively diverts attention away from their own problems. Take for instance when the U.S. President didnt attend certain memorial services in France. The great offense it appeared to cause when I told them France was an 'unsecured craphole', travel warnings issued, credible death threats against Macron within days of his arrival, brewing civil unrest. I swear reading their response to that it was evident they didn't have have a clue. For them they seem to be just just stuck on their local headlines of Trump bad man.
Now they are bent on telling me I have to be concerned what the world thinks of the U.S.? Like others here I worked hard for what I got, I pay my taxes. I just spent several weeks in the Appalacian mountains camped in the back country George Washington , Jefferson Natioanal forests, saw and chased off three black bear to boot. Then went to Florida to visit family. Worrying about what the 'world' thinks just isn't part of my day.