However, I would suggest that there is a big difference between not liking a president and not liking the US. As a teenager, I was probably guilty of equating the two, until I actually met, and got to know, some Americans.

I don’t really know enough about history to comment longer term, but I would say that during the Reagan conservative era, the UK still looked upon the US as something to ‘aspire to’, something definitely different to the GWB era.

Equally, I find it interesting that the US seems to have such a big — almost cultural — downer on socialism, or anything that sounds too lefty.

Don’t take me the wrong way; I’m grown up enough to not have an axe to grind against the US as a whole, or against US citizens. I may disagree with policies or politicians, but equally I object at times to those of the UK.

Thanks for stopping by and commenting, tho’. It’s always fun when someone disagrees with me, particularly when — as you did — they make their point without assuming everyone else is automatically wrong or stupid.

Anyway, being a student of history, I dare anyone to name a time the US was loved by the world. Seriously. Look back 40 years. 100 years. 200 years. Newspapers sound the same as they ever did. The US has never been adored. And we don’t exist to do what you want, any more than you exist to do what we want. All I hear is about diversity and understanding… you know, except when it’s ways we want to be different. Then we’re simply vile. Thanks!

Seriously, it’s tongue in cheek. Mostly. It gets old after a while. Sorry if you don’t like us. My job is to do what I think is right, not what I think is popular with people who don’t even know me. If the world decides they don’t like “cowboys”, I don’t care. I’m from Texas.

I also advise just about everyone to go study some history and go read something that wasn’t written by the liberal media.