On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 5:50:30 AM UTC-10, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:43:00 -0700, Leonard Blaisdell
> > wrote:
>
> >In article >, graham > wrote:
> >
> >> "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its
> >> way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion
> >> that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your
> >> knowledge.'" -- Isaac Asimov
> >
> >I loved Mr. Asimov. I read damned everything he ever wrote including
> >his scientific explanations. But I'm going to change the quote above.
> >
> >The strain of intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its
> >way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false
> >notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your
> >ignorance, but I have a PhD in communist nonsense. -- leo
> >
> >See what I did there? Why the hell are you and others foreign to the
> >United States interested in us at all? I don't even know the name of
> >your Prime Ministers, although one possibly authors the cartoon
> >"Doonesbury".
> >
> >leo
>
> your last paragraph says everything
> Janet US

He has a point. It's bad form for disinterested parties to go on about another country's business. OTOH, the president has pretty much raised the bar on bad form. So you got that happening...