Why is our country so great?

[Bratsondanielle]

What are your reasons to be happy every day living life healthy and happy here in the USA?

for me personally it’s the fact that you can have and do anything you want no matter who you are

you can be rich or poor or in between- drive a big car or a small

whatever you want you can do

what are your reasons

[Chazmatazz269]

“And you—sorority girl—yeah—just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there are some things you should know, and one of them is that there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world. We're seventh in literacy, twenty-seventh in math, twenty-second in science, forty-ninth in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies. None of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you, nonetheless, are without a doubt, a member of the WORST-period-GENERATION-period-EVER-period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about? Yosemite?

We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right! We fought for moral reasons, we passed and struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, and we acted like men. We aspired to intelligence; we didn't belittle it; it didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't scare so easy. And we were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men, men who were revered. The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one—America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.”

[Chazmatazz269]

Arguably the greatest monologue in the history of television, and it was 100% true when it aired. We haven’t meaningfully changed anything since then either. It’s been over a decade, in case you’re wondering.

[OneViewpoint]

The USA is circling the toilet bowl at the moment. The Constitution is toilet paper. We have a fascist government in power and 2 political parties owned by a handful of rich Oligarchs. Our courts have been thoroughly corrupted. Our middle class is steadily being systematically eliminated. Our status in the world is sinking like the Titanic. And we have a Reich Wing Cult who believes riding the Crazy Train back to 1860 is Making America Great Again. It is sad to witness the end of this 250 year old nation.

[alli-112]

I assume you're talking about the USA.

I supposed we have a relatively high standard of living on the global scale, but beyond that I can't say I actually am particularly thrilled with the country.

I honestly disagree with your reason simply because you functionally can't do "whatever you want" in the US, not significantly more than you can in other developed nations at the very least. Like we might think we have more choices but a lot of those "choices" that we're allowed to make are like "which company would you like to be scammed by?" and "which would you prefer: life-long soul-destroying medical debt or literal death?" Personally, I don't really feel like having those choices is actually all that meaningful.

[petitedollbabee]

Ooh yes, 100%…
outstanding rates of gun violence/child deaths due to guns, unaffordable healthcare, forever rising rates of homelessness, your country is one of the biggest contributors to mindless consumption and obesity statistics, women no longer have reproductive rights, minorities are still facing blatant racism and violence as if we’re in the 1950’s, your president is an Oompa Loompa who doesn’t care about you unless you’re in the top 1%. Almost any other country is better in any way.

Woo, yeah, ‘merica! Lmfao.

[Bratsondanielle]

What are you talking about lmao basically everything you said is wrong

[petitedollbabee]

Research any of the points that I’ve made and you’ll see that I’m correct. But we both know that you won’t look it up, you’d rather be blissfully ignorant 🙂

[Bratsondanielle]

Well look it up / research is like... I live here. I was born here. Just the "women have no reproductive rights" alone is like something ultra liberal CNN nonsense. It's total operation mockingbird like their "constitutional crisis" they all started singing on cue cuz Trump is president. We can buy condoms and pills and all that and have an abortion if we want to exactly like 3 years ago and 15 and 23 years ago. And one more " point " is your gun jazz which makes me assume you're somewhere in Europe... of course Alabama has more gun shots than say... The Netherlands ... simply because we can have guns (2nd amendment.) And Trump just signed a huge thing protecting that right. Few other places in the world do people have access to guns - well unless you're a criminal...

[glennos89]

@petitedollbabee I agree with you 💯. Im glad i'm not the only one seeing the US as a place that is anything but great 😂

[glennos89]

The USA isn't great at all! Just look at the extreme amount of poisonous ingredients in almost all of your foods. You are being killed slowly by just your foods only.

Im from Europe and although the US tries very hard to get Europe's approval for exporting their GMO food products inro Europe but that's not happening luckily.

Every country in the world knows how unhealthy and extremely fat the majority of American citizens look like. Nothing great about a country that is poisoning their own citizens into their graves slowly but surely

[Bratsondanielle]

Wow it's all terrible here in THE US damn... hey could you spread the word pls. ? Just so that everybody from everywhere would not come running anymore and try and stay as much as possible... please... tell people how bad it is... warn them

[glennos89]

I can only spread the word for you in Europe but that's unnecessary because Europeans are all feeling the same way as me. We are astonished to see how Americans think its great over there, while we are seeing bad food quality, extreme obesitas, junkies and homeless people out on the streets everywhere in big cities, underground cities that are being habitat by the homeless, billions of dollars being wasted on the military instead of their own citizens, pollution littering the streets...

We really fail to understand what's so great about the US because we Europeans can't see it from here except from the beauty of nature that certain area's of the US have

[Shiprex]

It's not great. It may have the highest rate of incarceration (state support of the poor) in the developed world, have the highest rate of mass shootings in the developed world, have some of the lowest literacy rates in the developed world, and highest gini coefficient in the developed world but that is more a function of the value placed on greed and corruption than what most would consider "great" values.

[seeyounexttuesday]

All of those things, plus the rich culture we have.

[Bratsondanielle]

Exactly

[exitseven]

Little League baseball games.

America/pastime

[SmokinAces2000]

It’s not