I can't imagine anyone growing up in an environment like that having much of a clue about the real world.

Bush et al seem to have become symptoms of inbred aristocratic decadence - literally blind to the sufferings of the little people, and unaccustomed to not getting their way.

I think at some point of the rest of the world is going to turn its back on the US and leave it to its self-absorbed and delusional mutterings.