I know it rubs some of us the wrong way when the rest of the world passes judgment on our politics. No single American ever asked to be born into the world’s cultural hegemon, and we don’t necessarily want it that way. But it IS that way, and others will be affected by the choice we make on Tuesday, this year even more than most years, and they are watching us and wondering why on earth we let things get to this point even if Trump probably is going to lose.
So I was reminded while walking past a school near my workplace today, when this turned up on the sidewalk:
The work of a bored kid going for shock value? Entirely possible. But it does show just what the rest of the world is going to think of us if we blow this. Let’s make sure we don’t!