FFS, why can't Britain just admit that leaving the EU was a dumb idea, driven by Putin and a handful

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90. The US is so painfully countrycentric that even when things are going relatively well

Comments made in the US are almost about other countries are cringe worthy in the best of times.

I will give you an example "I am against the TPP" is the kind of statement that no politician outside the US would ever consider making nut is common here. You might be against the US joining the TPP but saying you are against the TPP itself projects the idea that if the US is against it then it will cease to exist.

Living outside the US gives you the virtual daily experience of Americans giving glib advice to other countries while we commit the same or greater offenses but at least the other country refrains from the constant barrage of condescension that Americans are so found of. During the election season you can hear US ambassadors lecture various countries all the while there is a river of stories about people not being able to vote here because of intentional actions by government officials (like the 95 year old black woman who having voted in every election or 50 years being denied a ballot because she no longer has a driving license).

We are the country that separates children from their parents not Great Britain

We are the country that is proposing to actually have a net out migration of people with official refugee status.

We are the country with idiot advisers in key spots like Bolton, not GB.

We are the country that broke its word on the Iranian deal not GB and, most inexplicably we are the only country who has left the Paris Climate Accords which aimed at voluntary action.

So while I personally think that Brexit is not in U.K. long term interest I just feel that condescending lectures would be better sourced from other countries where public discourse and policy is actually performing at a higher level of wisdom and kindness but the irony is of course that citizens from other countries don't really do that kind of thing.

Giving condescending gratuitous advice to other countries really is the one metric that the US really is number 1 at.