The "Whole, Wide World" can bite me.

Of all the silly arguments I hear during the US elections I am the most amused by the idea that I should care that a whole bunch of random people in the rest of the world want candidate ____ to win. It’s kind of like telling me I am supposed to let strangers tell me how to invest my money, or what job to take.

The simple reality is this – the rest of the world does not, in general, have the best interests of the US at heart.

We are, in general, at the top of the power food chain. We live well, we can defend ourselves and we grow more food than we know what to do with. We do all this because we are built on a system that rewards ability and effort – instead of a socialist or communist system that punishes those things.

As with anyone or any group at or near the top, those people who aren’t have an endless litany of reasons why we should sacrifice ourselves for their benefit. We should stop defending ourselves, we should give up our power, we should give them our money, we should live worse. Of course we should still keep protecting them and we should still keep working hard and inventing stuff.

We’ll make our own decisions thanks, in our own interests, for our own reasons. They can like it or not, I don’t care.