Then I have no idea what you're reading when you read my posts. My point was that Republicans never try to compare other countries to ours because we believe we have the greatest country in the world. Liberals do not; always telling us how great it is in other places.
The fact that liberals want to change just about everything in America makes me wonder if you people even like this country--not because Democrat policies are treason, but because you are always telling us how wrong our country is compared to others because their systems are so superior to ours.
Bottom line is it seems we Republicans love our country while you on the left love other countries.
I guess I'll never understand some people. Kind of reminds me of what our state is doing now which is putting up sound barriers on the highways to make it a tad bit quieter for the homes that border the highway. To a liberal, this is logical. To a conservative, WTF did you buy a house next to the Fn highway for??? Now we are wasting tens of millions of dollars because you clowns bought cheaper homes by the highway, and then complained to your representatives about the noise!
So to me, it makes no sense when liberals complain we are not like other countries instead of packing your bags and going to these other countries. If it's so great there with their socialized medical care, their gun laws, their taxation, their election system, their education system, move and live in your utopia. But no. Instead, stay here and complain.
No Ray, your point is that everything Democrats do is rubbish and everything Republicans do is ******* amazing. That's your point, and it's bullshit.
So, it makes no sense to you when liberals complain about something and then want their country to be improved. Why? Because you're going to do everything to stop it happening because you want rich people to get richer, and poor people to go **** themselves.
Why in the world would we not want to stop leftists from trying to turn us into another European country? We on the right don't want to be another European country, we want to preserve the USA. Do you know what that means? It means not being like Europe, their social structure, or their governments.
The problem is Ray that you've taken a side. I look at something to decide whether I think it's good or bad, you just decided that the left like it, therefore it must be bad. That's ridiculous.
Have you been to Europe? Have you seen how the NHS works? Or the French system works? Have you taken the time to learn about these things? Or is it that you know what you want because the rich folk have told you enough times, so you try and make everything fit your view of the world?
You might not want the left to take over, there is always a constant fight in every country between people with different views, but different views aren't the difference between loving the country (if they support YOUR views) and hating the country (because they don't support YOUR views).
So you don't want to be like Europe. The Europe you know nothing about..... surely it should be a case of finding out what WORKS and then seeing how you can make it work in the US. Rather than "Europe does this, so it must be a bad idea".
Yes, I do think most everything the left likes is bad. What's wrong with that? I don't do so blindly, I just happen to be a conservative and believe in conservative policies and government.
I was a child of the 70's. As a teen, I seen bad things happening to this country. I didn't know much about politics back then, but I remember how I felt about what was going on.
When I got older and examined what was taking place as a kid, I seen the damage done to this country by liberals. I seen what happened to two-parent families. Most all of the bad kids in school were those from newly single-parent families. I seen the change when liberals took God out of our society, and continue that push today. I seen the decay of major cities due to bussing--another liberal gem. I've seen and experienced the destruction of great neighborhoods and cities because of so-called fair housing laws. I seen great jobs leave the country because of unions and taxation that Democrats pushed so hard for.
If you could go back in time to let's say the early 70's, and tell people you were from the future and what it would be like, they would have beaten the hell out of you and told you you were FOS. You would tell them that women are all tattooed and men walk around in dresses. You would tell them that gays would be legally married and adopting kids. You would tell them you could get more time in jail for beating up your dog than beating your wife. You would tell them that you could get fired just for flirting with a female coworker. You would tell them that people living on welfare do just as well as people who worked.
Nobody would have believed you. Yet here we are, and liberals are not done trying to ruin this country. They want even more liberalism.
So forgive me if I don't believe in those things, but I don't. Too much damage done, and it's time to stop it now.
What is wrong with that, Ray, is that it isn't based in reality. You're making things fit your view of the world, rather than have your view of the world shaped by what is happening. This leads to nonsense. And it happens on this forum maybe 90% of the time.
And it's boring.
You have ideas of why things have gone bad.
Like the destruction of the family. There are lots of reasons why. One of those reasons is that society has changed with the development of industry. However you're very quick to blame it on those things which FIT YOUR VIEW of the world, and spend almost no time actually looking for the real reasons.
Look, you blame the demise on a lack of God, and then what about Muslims who are supposedly with God and going around bombing and killing? Your argument doesn't make sense.
You can believe whatever you like Ray, this isn't the point I am making here. The point is that you're coming onto a politics site, and you're not really debating, you're just throwing stuff out there and hoping it sticks.
But then you don't see the reality, you see the belief.
Religion is about belief. It's about people accepting instead of using their brain. You have a view that things were better, but better for who? 500 years ago people were forced to live a certain life, but we don't live 500 years ago, we're not subsistence farmers, we have money, we have choices, and people make bad choices because they've not been educated to live in the real modern world, we have religion to educate us, and it doesn't work.