Is america a bad country?

[Anonymous]

Some people including Americans themselves, claims america is bad, claiming were not equal in america, claiming it's full od idiots.

[MrOracle]

At the moment, America could do a whole lot better at living up to its founding principles, which in my opinion are the best in the world (though, to be fair, they are based on English Common Law, which is far less common even in England today). But the identity politics that's causing huge problems in the US are a problem in many other countries at the moment as well. I think we are FINALLY starting to address these problems, though new offenses are still happening (Biden just expanded Title 9 protections to trans people that effectively strip protections from women as a whole, for example).

The US has plenty of problems, and it makes me both sad and angry on a regular basis to see these things happening - yet I still think the foundation of America is important and that America is the "last stand" - if America were to fall, then I think most of the world would fall into war and would probably end up with tyrannical Marxist dictatorships, as we see in Russia and China right now.

[handsomelad70]

America is a crumbling empire (someone described it as " a Third World country in an Armani suit") whose decline stems from the fact that it has never truly dealt with slavery's aftermath. Additionally, in the past half-century, laws favouring the acquisition of mega-wealth, often by mergers which eliminate or reduce competition and union-busting which has had a deleterious effect on especially blue-collar wages, has resulted in America's being the first rich poor country (or poor rich country), replete with CEOs' salaries skying to North of THREE HUNDRED TIMES their employees' on average.

It is the lone First World country which lacks nationalized health care, thus its life expectancy is the lowest among rich countries. Add the obesity and trash epidemics where "body positivity" celebrates life-abbreviating extreme largeness while bl*ck and wh*te tr*sh lifestyles are boomed as "authenticity" to which people should aspire (not to mention the not-so-faint and getting more obvious whiff of Fascism which will permeate the U. S. should its 45th President become its 47th), and America, described by Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. as "a house afire" two years before his Apr.4, 1968 assassination, is nearly inescapably ablaze today, and barring MAJOR, MAJOR changes America seems unwilling to even ponder, will cave in from its conflagration circa 2035, if not sooner.

[Jersey2]

Slavery taking down the US. Nonsense. You must be black. Effectively, it was a small labor scheme used primarily in one part of the country and frankly was not even that unique nor in a global sense contained to one race. The word slave is a derivative of Slavs, do the math. All slavery did was to delay the invention and adoption of things like the Cotton Gin and other farm equipment.

We can all learn from MLK, ALL of us. Blacks today though are privileged but shouldn't be.

[handsomelad70]

@Jersey2 OF CURSE I'm black, and the legacy of slavery permeates America today, starting from discriminatory treatment of POC in education, employment, health care, policing and EVERY aspect of U. S. life. Truth hurts, doesn't it, boyo? (Recently, Arab Americans, long regarded "white" despite the bigotry they face, were given a new Census form option to describe their ethnic and/or religious grouping.)

[handsomelad70]

I mean,"OF COURSE I'm the black great-grandson of Maryland slaves !!!"

[Jersey2]

Slavery ended 160 years ago i Maryland. Not my problem. At that time my family was in Ireland being forcibly starved to death by the English, but you don't care about that, this is about you and demands for money. You don’t give a shit about the plight of the Irish and I don’t hive a shit about your history. Its that simple. You don’t even know much or anything about indentured servitude nor do you care. I know your type.

Blacks are given preferential access to schools, given higher grades to keep them in schools, given job opportunities because of their race and certainly given job promotions and money due to their race. Enough already. You are an entitled people always bitching for more.

The black father is the one who causes the failure of black kids today, not other people. The black dad who abandons them, who spends the money on himself, who cheats, who doesn’t help his kids grow, who doesn’t sacrifice for his family but yet quite the opposite. It is the black father that is the villain today for the black children, not anyone else.

[handsomelad70]

@Jersey2 Partly, but the disappearance of the black father is largely due to white disinvestments in the cities in which these dads lived, meaning they could no longer get the non-college-demanding blue collar jobs which could help their kids out of poverty. Add the social assistance rules which mandated fathers leave the home so the mother could get cash aid for the children, and there's the issue of few black at-home dads in a nutshell.

[Jersey2]

There are a lot of poor dad’s that stay the course. Poor Vietnamese dad’s who come here, poor Asian, Hispanic, Eastern European Dads take care of their family. This does jot belong on my doorstep. Black fathers 70 years ago did a much better job. It’s a culture issue. And now we have black fathers making 6 figures who still bail on their kids. I worked with one.

[NetherlandsNar]

It's like any other country there are positives and negatives

[Lliam]

No. People are people, no matter what part of the world they live in.
Just like everywhere, America has it's problems, but most of them are the result of politics, the media and the entertainment industries, that stir trouble, have terrible role models, and keep people ignorant.

[Jersey2]

An Anon, how divisive of you…

Anyway, the US leads in technology, GDP, space, medical, higher learning, entertainment and so much more.

people have been saying that the US is falling since I have been alive and yet we grow stronger.

[KrakenAttackin]

The U. S. is not a bad country. We do have our share of idiots, but that is anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Ohhhh, it is definitely full of idiots. Especially the one who hate America.

[handsomelad70]

And in Trump's case, Putin-bootlicking traitors.

[jahaims]

Only country I will ever live in.