the outcome of the election

[Chaerophon]

Interesting. Which do you really mean: they hate our country or our leadership? And by leadership

Well... much of the world hated the leadership of America, and the steps that it has taken over the last four years. A majority of Americans just validated those steps. You do the math. I don't doubt that we're a large step closer to a general hatred than what we were yesterday.

I predict that over the next four years we see the EU turn inwards, the countries of East Asia begin negotiating closer ties, and an American struggle to reclaim its balance of payments. The first two do not bode well for the latter, and I don't think that the economy will be in any better shape four years from now than what it is now.