America has no ties to "the Christian God." Only during the 50s were the words "under God" added to the pledge of allegiance. Yes, our money says "In God we trust." I think Americans believe money *is* their god. I've seen what greed does, it corrupts worse than power.
Please define "The American Way." Truth, Liberty, and Justice? Our politicians tell more lies than any other country (verifiable), we have insane laws most other countries don't have (zoning laws, taxing expatriates), and have the greatest number of prisoners (many for nonviolent crimes most other countries wouldn't care about). Those are demonstrably true, and prove the stated American Way is bogus.
Freedom - to do what, exactly? Of speech? Well, that may anger someone enough to hunt another person down and kill them. It happens in America, and seemingly rarely in other developed countries. Freedom to own guns? While I agree in a strong defense, Americans are brutish, selfish, uneducated people who try to force their opinion down the gullet of others. A right to bear arms was specifically meant to maintain order prior to the current police state we have. Besides, all the "good" weapons are highly regulated and restricted to police/military use, rendering the 2nd amendment vestigial and useless if the citizens wanted to rise against their tyranical regime.
The American Dream - This one is especially heinous in that 90% of the populace will never attain that goal (owning a home, steady job, and retirement). Most of the Millennials can't even afford a house, and the average age according to data on what they make and life costs, they'll *on average* afford their first house by age 71. By having a lack of savings, their children (if they have any, since Millennials can't afford children for the most part) will also suffer. All this means is the next generation will be few, and try to support a greater number of potential retirees. It's a recipe for failure. I'd like to add that most people I know work many hours, and much of it is unpaid. Highly illegal, but that's the American Dream I've seen and experienced. It is a game of the rich, for the rich, in order to further their plutocratic desires. The rest of us are simply pawns in their economic gains, too dazzled by advertisements and lotteries to realize how utterly terrible life in America is for the *vast* majority of people. We even have a 2/3 chance to enter bankruptcy for medical expenses, and are the only country in the world with that ideal. Better to die suffering than live homeless and die suffering anyway, right?
America looks like it is broken, but it isn't. It is functioning precisely as the rich and powerful intend. The American populace is chattel, to be broken and used until they die, and given some uninspiring speech to make it seem as though their lives meant something to anyone.
Psalm 127:1
Unless the LORD builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the LORD guards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.
2 Chronicles 7:14
... if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
There's a lot wrong with the US, but there is a lot right, too.
If we are too proud, God could withdraw all protection and then we would be sunk quickly. It has happened to other nations before.
May God bless America and may America bless God.
I don't think it is or ever has been. They just like to brag more than anyone else.
Apologies, I mean no offense.
The true measure of any nation, should be based upon how much poverty they have and how many homeless people there are.
A nation like usofa, where people cannot afford basic healthcare. People live off food banks but the government is happy to spend billions on war and stockpiling weapons etc.
It gets too political, surprised I have even risen to this post.
Grrrr!
That you have honest hard working people who can choose a fantastic man as Trump as a president. I'd wish our population were just as lucky, and had the power to get a guy of the real working people as there president, rather than a well educated asshole , who only want to be a president for them high assed long educated People
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America is good, but it could be better.
I think America started as an innovative idea by giving people civil liberties and rights , and really inspired other countries to use that idea. Some things I think America needs to work on is wealth inequality and improving our education. The American dream right now is just a dream for a lot of Americans, and usually those who are born in a lower social economic level tend to stay at that level (there are exceptions, but going from poor to a millionaire is very rare).
Third world level poverty. People going bankrupt over medical bills. Armed right wingers taking over a state legislature. A president who has billed the US government so far about $134 million just for golf trips. The US losing the South China Sea to China, who just launched two more new aircraft carriers. The Pentagon just announced in every US-China war games scenario projected to 2030 the US will lose. A $24.7 trillion national debt. Eroding airports, highways, water and sewer infrastructure with no money to rebuild. The list goes on.
I feel like most Americans are so ignorant about other countries. I see America as a 3rd world country with 1st world toys.
America is nowhere near the top on any list other than Corona virus deaths, poor healthcare, debt, and obesity. Sorry...
Nothing!!
Your legal system is flawed and a fucking joke.
You feed the masses an illusion of freedom but penalize one over the other.
You have the right to bear arms if you're Caucasian, Asian sometimes Latino but have a problem with Negros wanting them for their own protection, unless it's for extermination of they own communities.
Your the biggest human rights abusers but love to hide yours to highlight another countries who may one or two.
Your nation is built on genocide, slavery, extortion, exploitation of others and making lynching black people bigger the NFL Super Bowl.
It's crystal clear that everyone in the US would likely to say that America is great. As a foreigner I have to say that a lot of the idea and the so called American dream is not any longer coming to my mind nowadays. Still a lot of thinyto see to learn and to discover for sure in the US, but living there is not that much a target. America is great - yes, but from the outside perspective a lot of glory hot dismantled. Sorry. Hope you don't feel bullied
Coca Cola, Mc Donalds, Micky Mouse, Hollywood, grizzly bears, guns, rednecks, peanut butter, Halloween costumes, Walmart, termites, KKK, cowboys, truckers, bank robbers, cotton farming, country music, border 'walls', flags, anthems, baseball, ...
The greatest thing however: I am lucky enough to live somewhere else.
It use to be because we started the industrial revolution and Developed the best technology, Not any more though, we have outsourced all of our innovation to other countries..
Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Laika Studios... that's what I like about USA. However if I had to choose where to live for the rest of my life, I prefer many European countries before USA.
I don't think it is anymore. I think it used to be and maybe it can be again but currently I personally don't think I can say it is at this time.
Sorry to break it to you but America isn't the greatest country... Gotta pay sh! t tone of money for health care, education and everything else. I'm from Greece. In all European countries (or at least most of them) Healthcare and education are free. Also in American schools they teach you things only about America. The sad reality is that most Americans don't even know what France is for example... and also you have school shootings :/
It is in so many ways and I can still say I love America.
I don't love what's going on and how things are falling apart for so long.
I fear...
I think America is fine but if i was poor it would be one of the last countrys i would choose to live in.
I dont think its better than anywhere else honestly
The christian god is fiction, the American way is backward, the American freedom is myth, the right to bear arms is barbaric, the American dream is dead. So definitely none of the above and "more" is laughable. What makes it "great"? Coronavirus tops the long list for sure. Make death great again.
Yup - america is number one - highest covid 19 infection rates, highest illiteracy rates, highest scientific illiteracy rates, highest mass murder rates, highest gun death rates, highest rates of leaders kissing racist groups asses. Soooo much going for it.
I think that the overt selfishness of Americans make it great. That, combined with more guns per capita than any other civilized nation in the world, the relatively low education, love of ignorance and dislike for scientific inquiry, the rampant rascism in the the US, the ever-increasing wealth gap- and a mobster president stoking all of the above-have created the greatest nation on earth.
Kind of like Rome circa 400AD
No idea why i was invited to this. I'm not even a yank xD your country is run by a circus clown, same as ours 😂
Lmao it just isn't. So many countries are better, safer and probably have more freedom.
It isn't far from it. I don't know which is but I would rank many European countries above US, I would put Canada above it also.
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