The more things change...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The Five Stages of Anti-Americanism notes that "The kind of attacks encountered today would have been all too familiar in tone to Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, who had to spend as much time and energy as current leaders proving to Europeans that their country was not inherently bad. Many of the best-known public figures in Europe over the last 240 years simply could not resist bashing America."



Note: Here's some of the newfangled America bashing done mainly by liberal Americans.