“The Gulf of America”

From a recent Reuters/Ipsos survey:   A supermajority of Americans don’t approve of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” according to the results of a new poll. Around 70% of respondents to the latest opposed the move, with 25% of respondents supporting it. The rest were unsure.

The president’s attempt to be taken seriously on the world stage and here at home would be far more easily accomplished if his attention weren’t focused on childish crap like this.

What were history’s great fascists, say, Hitler and Mussolini telling their people during their respective rises to power?  I don’t know, but Hitler wasn’t renaming the North Sea “the German Sea,” and Mussolini wasn’t calling Switzerland “Northern Italy.”

The people of the day who had real problems, and were looking for solutions, would have laughed them off the stage.