The laughingstock? Of whom? What image are we trying to curtail, and why does that matter so much? Have you ever lived abroad for a significant period of time? Do you have a good feeling for exactly how much time or concern various places in the world put into discussing what the US means to them?

Claiming that anyone cares as much as you think they do is slightly ethnocentric, and if anyone does have any thoughts at this point, they are usually not the most favorable because they are due to interventionist policies and an imperialist attitude. Of the few vaguely coherent messages that Trump has put forward, there are some advantages to a slightly more isolationist and inward bound approach.

I would understand if your concern was for the chance of specific policies being set in place, but I’m not sure I follow the doomsday scenario of what a Trump presidency might lead to.

Is your faith in the USA’s democratic republic and representative government so little that you believe that one person will cause such dramatic upheaval in 4 years that it’s best to live elsewhere?

I can understand this viewpoint, I just think it’s a bit fatalistic and perhaps even reminiscent of a self fulfilling prophecy to give credence to such a scenario.

“Trump is bad, he will ruin everything!” -> “We should leave!” -> “By leaving, we have ruined everything!”

This does not sound like the rhetoric of those who truly care about their fellow citizens.

Your friend,

Abrikoff