Which has to happen to turn America around and be great again?

[nightdrot]

Did not vote as the ballot options - though in some cases suggesting useful reforms - are too superficial.

It is the nature of fortunes and man that the pendulum swings both ways. Though in the end - as Lincoln said, "The only phrase that is true always and forever is, 'This too shall pass."

Nothing lasts. Human beings are frail creatures and imperfect. That is why those schools of philosophical thought that have sought Utopia or to perfect man have led to so much brutality and bloodshed. The greatest crimes in history having been those made in the name of perfection.

Having said all that as preface, of course the United States will bounce back. At least until it does not, but "we cannot know the day nor the hour."

What can be said in all conviction is that what the USA is experiencing now, both domestically and internationally, is not new - or at least not entirely new. This is a nation that experienced so much internal upheaval that over 600,000 of its citizens killed each other. More than the number of Americans who died in both world wars combined. It does not get much more violent and tumultuous than that.

The current interregnum of rising crime, social turmoil, campus radicalism and the like too has its antecedents in history. It being only necessary to look back to as recently as the 1960s and 70s for a period of equal social tumult.

Of course there are differences. The period of the 1960s and 70s played out against a technological backdrop of mass media - mass circulation publications, movies, radio and television. So all more or less experienced the world through the same intellectual and cultural prism.

The current technology, on the other hand, has a splintering effect. It is possible now for an individual - thanks to cable, the Internet, social media and the like - to look at their phone or watch television or listen to satellite radio and get the message that confirms their biases. Thus a culture in which the same words mean different things to different people and meaningful communication is more difficult and problematic.

Indeed, this has resulted in an interesting shift. In the 60s and 70s the message was to avoid conformity. "Do your own thing," and "don't believe what the man tells you." Now the cultural message is "wokeness." Don't use certain words. Don't say certain things. "You better do what the man tells you to do" - so long of course as it is the right man.

Yet the United States has even been through this before. As the economy transitioned from an agricultural/mercantile economy to a manufacturing/consumer economy, Americans worried about what would happen to the sturdy rural yeoman and the values of rural life. Indeed, this is part of what led to that aforementioned 600,000 dead in the Civil War.

So the nation has been here before - and will be again. Until it is not - it again being an irreducible reality that "we cannot know the day nor the hour." Thus it is the obligation of each citizen to be the best and most virtuous being they can be. Thus delaying, individually and collectively, that final hour for as long as is possible. It never being forgotten that it can be delayed, but not denied.

One last point: The question speaks of the USA being "irredeemable." This being the language of sin and faith and not the social sciences. Yet that is the funny thing, few nations in history have sought more self-consciously to become "a more perfect union."

So consciously and with such self-awareness, Americans - for all their many, many flaws - have an innate desire to try to be better. This is what keeps America from being "irredeemable." Note not immortal, but an example of the striving to be more than it is in any given moment.

[SalvatoreCordileone]

I am not from The USA, but as a outsider looking in. I think the world needs USA to be free.

It gives people like me a chance for hope and maybe freedom in our homeland.

I see if USA dies, so does world freedom.

USA citizens are being played for fools and better wake up fast as fuck

[kyleelyn199723]

My personal belief: America will be a better place when people STOP attacking others for their personal beliefs and letting people do what they want regardless of how you personally feel. This country is loaded with mental basket case people that are completely ruining the country because they are basically policing peoples rights. We live in a country where policing peoples rights is the NEW version of shutting down peoples rights. Let’s start with Cancel culture for example. The worst creation in all of history that continues to police peoples personal rights

[cth2188]

Dems gotta go ! Their a problem !

[DCooper]

About the only thing that would set things in that direction would be the states dissolving the federal government and replacing it with something more akin to the original articles. The Constitution was a bold experiment and a brilliant attempt at forming a lasting republic, but it failed to keep the federal entity it created in its limited roles as intended.

As a result of that, the federal government has taken on the role of draining resources from the productive to buy the support of the unproductive and the various administrative offices that oversee the redistribution; and thereby caused the states and the people themselves to become more and more self destructive over time.

[Oigit]

Both parties are sucking the tit of wall street and cooperate America. People are too scared of the truth in front of them to admit it. So many would rather engage in the endless cycle of finger pointing and right fighting to admit it. You want America to be great? Stop running away from the truth. Corruption is a foundation issue. It does not matter how much you attempt to fix a structure built on a broken foundation, the structure will always break down. Because the root cause of the issue is the foundation it's built on.

[MCheetah]

Go to war with China, be the one to strike first, decimate the CCP and bring permanent Democracy to China, go back to producing goods in the US (or at least not heavily relying on imports), clean up Washington, break up the two party political system, 100% permanently ban lobbying and corporations buying politicians, educate the masses, provide them with strong healthcare, and abolish all wokeness and socially accepted bigotry from American society.

So yeah, it's basically impossible to fix America.

[AviatorTom]

America's founding fathers created a minimalistic federal government. In the US Constitution, there is very little that the federal government is empowered to do; most things are left to the individual states.

Over time, federal government has grown and assumed more power that it didn't originally have. To be a great country, the best way to do that is to reduce the size of federal government, return powers to the states, and eliminate wasteful federal socialist programs.

[Buntyp]

Stop listening to bigots and morons who let themselves be led by the nose by a megalomaniac spoiled draft-dodging fat old rich kid that should be locked up for being a lying misogynistic racist who wouldn't know the truth if it bit his head off and jumped down his throat. And that's just for starters. What do you think? How am I doing here? Good plan, huh?

[Anonymous]

To make America great again, it must return to the values ​​that made it great. That is, to the values ​​of the 50's. Faith in God, family, morals, patriotism, freedom. Faith and moral values ​​must go into schools, young people must be encouraged to get married and start good traditional families, instead of building a career, being independent and so on. Gay marriage and feminism must be abolished and the traditional family and way of life restored. And to eliminate the policies of identity - just the race must disappear as a topic in society. All should be seen as Americans, not as representatives of a particular race or other identity. And to ban disgusting movies, songs, and the like that promote values ​​such as greed, violence, debauchery, homosexuality, feminism, and other liberal nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Do away with idiots like you who think the republicunts are the end all to every problem in America, or that the demodopes are the cause of all problems. You're really too dumb to understand that to the wealthy, all the rest of us are just cogs that turn their wheel of fortune. You so ignorant purvey their message of disillusion and spew out their divisive bullshit that it keeps you from understanding anything being done to you. In the real scheme of things, you're nothing but their puppet, which is what you accuse everyone else of being, especially those who don't worship at the republicunts altar.

[Curmudgeon]

What we need, I think, is a non-alcoholic, clean and sober, Joe McCarthy for the 21st century. Identify the 5th columns in academia, the civil service, entertainment and the media, and hound them out of office. We did not have, and should have had, a Nuremburg Trials 2.0 for the fellow travelers of the Communist International Socialists, just like there was a Nuremburg Trials 1.0 for the National Socialists of yore.

[NorthwestRider]

The best Healthcare system
The best schools
The best roads and airports
The highest paying jobs
The best hotels
The best airlines and trains

We need all that I mentioned

[JasM0]

Having mutual respect for people with differing opinions and the institution that makes the sharing of those opinions possible.


Cheers

[youreanidiot2]

• free government handouts for everyone
• open the border to mexico
• ban guns
• teach critical race theory in schools
• free abortions on demand
• forced vaccinations
• forced mask wearing
• convert to islam
• replace the constitution with sharia law

[Jesuswasahue]

As the Son Of God... I will tell you right now the only one that makes any sense at all for even a split second is B... However, the GOP is the worst at this.

[Avicenna]

All of the above, but especially disengaging from the dysfunctional economic relationship with the CCP and reducing the size of the very dysfunctional federal government.

[Anonymous]

Hilarious how many ignorant idiots here think a one party authoritarian borderline fascist dictatorship is the way to go.

[Gal67]

None of the above, and "believing in God again" would just make things far worse. If you want to live in a theocracy, then move to Saudi Arabia!

[Redstang88]

Well history has shown what happens when a country is run by one political power unopposed.
But reducing military spending and bringing manufacturing back within our own countries would be a good start

[awkward_author]

I think we need to start communicating better with each other.

[najekim]

Reduce the size and power of Government back to what only the US Constitution says and have third party candidates control 1/3 of Congress.

[fjb2021]

Red tsunami is on it's way. It's fun, it'll take time, but damn, this country has some good times ahead. Will Trump be the next Grover Cleveland? Who knows, but that victory would be too sweeet.

[FunkyMonkee]

All of the above except for that god bullshit.
And, there's a few other things, too!