This just so sums up

[Dr Grump]

why the US is fucked. Been trying to articulate it for years but never been able to do so properly.

TRANSLATION:

1. Progressives spent years giving intel, money and support to China to "level out the playing field."
2. China modernizes, becomes superpower, develops killer virus for which we have no defense.
3. Now Progressives say: "See! I told you America was unraveling!"

oh, lookie, more conspiracy theory pap...

 

[Correll]

why the US is fucked. Been trying to articulate it for years but never been able to do so properly. And no, this is not anti-American. Like most people in the world, a strong US (as it used to be) is much better than a strong China. So here's the article and some of its highlights.

The Unraveling of America

Anthropologist Wade Davis writes about Covid-19 and its devastating impact on the international standing of the United States.

www.rollingstone.com

Some highlights:

1. But what surely does is the absolutely devastating impact that the pandemic has had on the reputation and international standing of the United States of America.
2. COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism.
3. For more than two centuries, reported the Irish Times, “the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the U.S. until now: pity.”
4. At its peak, Henry Ford’s Willow Run Plant produced a B-24 Liberator every two hours, around the clock. Shipyards in Long Beach and Sausalito spat out Liberty ships at a rate of two a day for four years
5. But freedom and affluence came with a price. The United States, virtually a demilitarized nation on the eve of the Second World War, never stood down in the wake of victory. To this day, American troops are deployed in 150 countries. Since the 1970s, China has not once gone to war; the U.S. has not spent a day at peace. President Jimmy Carter recently noted that in its 242-year history, America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace.
6. More than any other country, the United States in the post-war era lionized the individual at the expense of community and family. It was the sociological equivalent of splitting the atom. What was gained in terms of mobility and personal freedom came at the expense of common purpose. In wide swaths of America, the family as an institution lost its grounding. By the 1960s, 40 percent of marriages were ending in divorce. Only six percent of American homes had grandparents living beneath the same roof as grandchildren; elders were abandoned to retirement homes
7. The country of the 1950s resembled Denmark as much as the America of today. Marginal tax rates for the wealthy were 90 percent. The salaries of CEOs were, on average, just 20 times that of their mid-management employees. Today, the base pay of those at the top is commonly 400 times that of their salaried staff, with many earning orders of magnitude more in stock options and perks. The elite one percent of Americans control $30 trillion of assets, while the bottom half have more debt than assets.
8. Trump’s performance and America’s crisis deflected attention from China’s own mishandling of the initial outbreak in Wuhan, not to mention its move to crush democracy in Hong Kong.
9. The American president lives to cultivate resentments, demonize his opponents, validate hatred. His main tool of governance is the lie; as of July 9th, 2020, the documented tally of his distortions and false statements numbered 20,055.

These last three are my favourite and sum up every neocon loser on this board. Every..single..one...of...you.

As they stare into the mirror and perceive only the myth of their exceptionalism, Americans remain almost bizarrely incapable of seeing what has actually become of their country. The republic that defined the free flow of information as the life blood of democracy, today ranks 45th among nations when it comes to press freedom.

The American cult of the individual denies not just community but the very idea of society. No one owes anything to anyone. All must be prepared to fight for everything: education, shelter, food, medical care. What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness.


American politicians dismiss the Scandinavian model as creeping socialism, communism lite, something that would never work in the United States. In truth, social democracies are successful precisely because they foment dynamic capitalist economies that just happen to benefit every tier of society.

The image of America abroad is not important. The rest of the world, if they think so poorly of US, are welcome to end their various alliances with us and tell us to get the fuck out.

They won't, because they know we are a great ally to have.

So, all of that is just the whining of ungrateful children.


The US's problem is a failure of confidence caused by the left.

 

[Dr Grump]

The image of America abroad is not important. The rest of the world, if they think so poorly of US, are welcome to end their various alliances with us and tell us to get the fuck out.

They won't, because they know we are a great ally to have.

So, all of that is just the whining of ungrateful children.


The US's problem is a failure of confidence caused by the left.

Just read and learn Correll.
Read and learn.....

 

[bigrebnc1775]

why the US is fucked. Been trying to articulate it for years but never been able to do so properly. And no, this is not anti-American. Like most people in the world, a strong US (as it used to be) is much better than a strong China. So here's the article and some of its highlights.

The Unraveling of America

Anthropologist Wade Davis writes about Covid-19 and its devastating impact on the international standing of the United States.

www.rollingstone.com

Some highlights:

1. But what surely does is the absolutely devastating impact that the pandemic has had on the reputation and international standing of the United States of America.
2. COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism.
3. For more than two centuries, reported the Irish Times, “the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the U.S. until now: pity.”
4. At its peak, Henry Ford’s Willow Run Plant produced a B-24 Liberator every two hours, around the clock. Shipyards in Long Beach and Sausalito spat out Liberty ships at a rate of two a day for four years
5. But freedom and affluence came with a price. The United States, virtually a demilitarized nation on the eve of the Second World War, never stood down in the wake of victory. To this day, American troops are deployed in 150 countries. Since the 1970s, China has not once gone to war; the U.S. has not spent a day at peace. President Jimmy Carter recently noted that in its 242-year history, America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace.
6. More than any other country, the United States in the post-war era lionized the individual at the expense of community and family. It was the sociological equivalent of splitting the atom. What was gained in terms of mobility and personal freedom came at the expense of common purpose. In wide swaths of America, the family as an institution lost its grounding. By the 1960s, 40 percent of marriages were ending in divorce. Only six percent of American homes had grandparents living beneath the same roof as grandchildren; elders were abandoned to retirement homes
7. The country of the 1950s resembled Denmark as much as the America of today. Marginal tax rates for the wealthy were 90 percent. The salaries of CEOs were, on average, just 20 times that of their mid-management employees. Today, the base pay of those at the top is commonly 400 times that of their salaried staff, with many earning orders of magnitude more in stock options and perks. The elite one percent of Americans control $30 trillion of assets, while the bottom half have more debt than assets.
8. Trump’s performance and America’s crisis deflected attention from China’s own mishandling of the initial outbreak in Wuhan, not to mention its move to crush democracy in Hong Kong.
9. The American president lives to cultivate resentments, demonize his opponents, validate hatred. His main tool of governance is the lie; as of July 9th, 2020, the documented tally of his distortions and false statements numbered 20,055.

These last three are my favourite and sum up every neocon loser on this board. Every..single..one...of...you.

As they stare into the mirror and perceive only the myth of their exceptionalism, Americans remain almost bizarrely incapable of seeing what has actually become of their country. The republic that defined the free flow of information as the life blood of democracy, today ranks 45th among nations when it comes to press freedom.

The American cult of the individual denies not just community but the very idea of society. No one owes anything to anyone. All must be prepared to fight for everything: education, shelter, food, medical care. What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness.


American politicians dismiss the Scandinavian model as creeping socialism, communism lite, something that would never work in the United States. In truth, social democracies are successful precisely because they foment dynamic capitalist economies that just happen to benefit every tier of society.

If we could just get rid of all of the Democrats....this pattern of lowered expectations would immediately go away.

They're not the problem. The biggest problem is the US has no sense of community. It's all about 'me, me, me"...Read the fucking article Mud....you're smart enough to get it. Most on the right aren't.

When the community is in a sinking lifeboat I'll swim
Fuck the American left time to thin the heard you fucking irrelevant foreigner. they created the mess they are the disease

 

[bigrebnc1775]

The image of America abroad is not important. The rest of the world, if they think so poorly of US, are welcome to end their various alliances with us and tell us to get the fuck out.

They won't, because they know we are a great ally to have.

So, all of that is just the whining of ungrateful children.


The US's problem is a failure of confidence caused by the left.

Just read and learn Correll.
Read and learn.....

fucking irrelevant foreigner America kicked you ass to get this freedom we have so fuck off

 

[Correll]

The image of America abroad is not important. The rest of the world, if they think so poorly of US, are welcome to end their various alliances with us and tell us to get the fuck out.

They won't, because they know we are a great ally to have.

So, all of that is just the whining of ungrateful children.


The US's problem is a failure of confidence caused by the left.

Just read and learn Correll.
Read and learn.....

I skimmed. All stupid shit I have seen before.


America needs to deal with some internal issues, and most of them boil down to you lefties needing to be kicked to the curb.

 

[impuretrash]

why the US is fucked. Been trying to articulate it for years but never been able to do so properly. And no, this is not anti-American. Like most people in the world, a strong US (as it used to be) is much better than a strong China. So here's the article and some of its highlights.

The Unraveling of America

Anthropologist Wade Davis writes about Covid-19 and its devastating impact on the international standing of the United States.

www.rollingstone.com

Some highlights:

1. But what surely does is the absolutely devastating impact that the pandemic has had on the reputation and international standing of the United States of America.
2. COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism.
3. For more than two centuries, reported the Irish Times, “the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the U.S. until now: pity.”
4. At its peak, Henry Ford’s Willow Run Plant produced a B-24 Liberator every two hours, around the clock. Shipyards in Long Beach and Sausalito spat out Liberty ships at a rate of two a day for four years
5. But freedom and affluence came with a price. The United States, virtually a demilitarized nation on the eve of the Second World War, never stood down in the wake of victory. To this day, American troops are deployed in 150 countries. Since the 1970s, China has not once gone to war; the U.S. has not spent a day at peace. President Jimmy Carter recently noted that in its 242-year history, America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace.
6. More than any other country, the United States in the post-war era lionized the individual at the expense of community and family. It was the sociological equivalent of splitting the atom. What was gained in terms of mobility and personal freedom came at the expense of common purpose. In wide swaths of America, the family as an institution lost its grounding. By the 1960s, 40 percent of marriages were ending in divorce. Only six percent of American homes had grandparents living beneath the same roof as grandchildren; elders were abandoned to retirement homes
7. The country of the 1950s resembled Denmark as much as the America of today. Marginal tax rates for the wealthy were 90 percent. The salaries of CEOs were, on average, just 20 times that of their mid-management employees. Today, the base pay of those at the top is commonly 400 times that of their salaried staff, with many earning orders of magnitude more in stock options and perks. The elite one percent of Americans control $30 trillion of assets, while the bottom half have more debt than assets.
8. Trump’s performance and America’s crisis deflected attention from China’s own mishandling of the initial outbreak in Wuhan, not to mention its move to crush democracy in Hong Kong.
9. The American president lives to cultivate resentments, demonize his opponents, validate hatred. His main tool of governance is the lie; as of July 9th, 2020, the documented tally of his distortions and false statements numbered 20,055.

These last three are my favourite and sum up every neocon loser on this board. Every..single..one...of...you.

As they stare into the mirror and perceive only the myth of their exceptionalism, Americans remain almost bizarrely incapable of seeing what has actually become of their country. The republic that defined the free flow of information as the life blood of democracy, today ranks 45th among nations when it comes to press freedom.

The American cult of the individual denies not just community but the very idea of society. No one owes anything to anyone. All must be prepared to fight for everything: education, shelter, food, medical care. What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness.


American politicians dismiss the Scandinavian model as creeping socialism, communism lite, something that would never work in the United States. In truth, social democracies are successful precisely because they foment dynamic capitalist economies that just happen to benefit every tier of society.

“The American cult of the individual…”

it’s actually culture, not ‘cult.’

And it isn’t going to change.

The primacy of the individual is seen as the cornerstone of liberty and freedom.

Indeed, Constitutional case law codifies the doctrine of the individual – the right of individuals to self-expression, the right of the individual to self-determination, and the right of the individual to find his unique place and role in society immune from attack by the state.

The doctrine of the individual is fostered by fundamental characteristics of the American experience: a large and diverse geography, a heterogeneous population, and the sanctioning of competition and conflict as an appropriate means to resolution.

This is why comparing the United States to other Western democracies is pointless and unjustified.

Consequently, the issue isn’t individualism per se, but the perversion of the doctrine where Americans no longer understand that a balance can be realized between individualism and collectivism; that Americans can work together to realize a common goal while respecting and preserving the doctrine of individualism.

How deeply divided the American people are on matters of race and politics, unfortunately, will be a significant barrier to Americans relearning how to work together for the benefit of the Nation as a whole.

It hasn't been acceptable to even "like" America much less work to make it better for a very long time. The popular media made sure of that. It's cheesy and uncool. Words like "nation" "patriotism" and "individualism" are now synonymous with words like fascism and white supremacy. Heck even the word "freedom" is mocked by millenial and zoomer leftists: "freedumb", they call it.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

The image of America abroad is not important. The rest of the world, if they think so poorly of US, are welcome to end their various alliances with us and tell us to get the fuck out.

They won't, because they know we are a great ally to have.

So, all of that is just the whining of ungrateful children.


The US's problem is a failure of confidence caused by the left.

Just read and learn Correll.
Read and learn.....

I skimmed. All stupid shit I have seen before.


America needs to deal with some internal issues, and most of them boil down to you lefties needing to be kicked to the curb.

Grumps a fucking foreigner he's irrelevant.

 

[healthmyths]

The image of America abroad is not important. The rest of the world, if they think so poorly of US, are welcome to end their various alliances with us and tell us to get the fuck out.

They won't, because they know we are a great ally to have.

So, all of that is just the whining of ungrateful children.


The US's problem is a failure of confidence caused by the left.

Just read and learn Correll.
Read and learn.....

I skimmed. All stupid shit I have seen before.


America needs to deal with some internal issues, and most of them boil down to you lefties needing to be kicked to the curb.

Grumps a fucking foreigner he's irrelevant.

Truth be known.. Grumps is down right jealous and even more totally despondent because HE can't come to America! He's locked into
his parents basement, totally dependent on them for everything. Hence his jealousy !

 

[gipper]

why the US is fucked. Been trying to articulate it for years but never been able to do so properly. And no, this is not anti-American. Like most people in the world, a strong US (as it used to be) is much better than a strong China. So here's the article and some of its highlights.

The Unraveling of America

Anthropologist Wade Davis writes about Covid-19 and its devastating impact on the international standing of the United States.

www.rollingstone.com

Some highlights:

1. But what surely does is the absolutely devastating impact that the pandemic has had on the reputation and international standing of the United States of America.
2. COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism.
3. For more than two centuries, reported the Irish Times, “the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the U.S. until now: pity.”
4. At its peak, Henry Ford’s Willow Run Plant produced a B-24 Liberator every two hours, around the clock. Shipyards in Long Beach and Sausalito spat out Liberty ships at a rate of two a day for four years
5. But freedom and affluence came with a price. The United States, virtually a demilitarized nation on the eve of the Second World War, never stood down in the wake of victory. To this day, American troops are deployed in 150 countries. Since the 1970s, China has not once gone to war; the U.S. has not spent a day at peace. President Jimmy Carter recently noted that in its 242-year history, America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace.
6. More than any other country, the United States in the post-war era lionized the individual at the expense of community and family. It was the sociological equivalent of splitting the atom. What was gained in terms of mobility and personal freedom came at the expense of common purpose. In wide swaths of America, the family as an institution lost its grounding. By the 1960s, 40 percent of marriages were ending in divorce. Only six percent of American homes had grandparents living beneath the same roof as grandchildren; elders were abandoned to retirement homes
7. The country of the 1950s resembled Denmark as much as the America of today. Marginal tax rates for the wealthy were 90 percent. The salaries of CEOs were, on average, just 20 times that of their mid-management employees. Today, the base pay of those at the top is commonly 400 times that of their salaried staff, with many earning orders of magnitude more in stock options and perks. The elite one percent of Americans control $30 trillion of assets, while the bottom half have more debt than assets.
8. Trump’s performance and America’s crisis deflected attention from China’s own mishandling of the initial outbreak in Wuhan, not to mention its move to crush democracy in Hong Kong.
9. The American president lives to cultivate resentments, demonize his opponents, validate hatred. His main tool of governance is the lie; as of July 9th, 2020, the documented tally of his distortions and false statements numbered 20,055.

These last three are my favourite and sum up every neocon loser on this board. Every..single..one...of...you.

As they stare into the mirror and perceive only the myth of their exceptionalism, Americans remain almost bizarrely incapable of seeing what has actually become of their country. The republic that defined the free flow of information as the life blood of democracy, today ranks 45th among nations when it comes to press freedom.

The American cult of the individual denies not just community but the very idea of society. No one owes anything to anyone. All must be prepared to fight for everything: education, shelter, food, medical care. What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness.


American politicians dismiss the Scandinavian model as creeping socialism, communism lite, something that would never work in the United States. In truth, social democracies are successful precisely because they foment dynamic capitalist economies that just happen to benefit every tier of society.

The image of America abroad is not important. The rest of the world, if they think so poorly of US, are welcome to end their various alliances with us and tell us to get the fuck out.

They won't, because they know we are a great ally to have.

So, all of that is just the whining of ungrateful children.


The US's problem is a failure of confidence caused by the left.

That’s hilarious and completely delusional, but I’m sure you believe it. It might have been true decades ago, but not now.

Our government has gone rogue and is completely controlled by transnational capitalists. It’s all about protecting the dollars dominance as the world’s reserve currency.

You clearly aren’t aware that any nation that refuses to go along with our corrupt government is attacked ruthlessly. See Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela. The rest of the world hates our government, but fears us. It will all come crashing down eventually and you will be totally taken by surprise. LOL.

 

[citygator]

why the US is fucked. Been trying to articulate it for years but never been able to do so properly. And no, this is not anti-American. Like most people in the world, a strong US (as it used to be) is much better than a strong China. So here's the article and some of its highlights.

The Unraveling of America

Anthropologist Wade Davis writes about Covid-19 and its devastating impact on the international standing of the United States.

www.rollingstone.com

Some highlights:

1. But what surely does is the absolutely devastating impact that the pandemic has had on the reputation and international standing of the United States of America.
2. COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism.
3. For more than two centuries, reported the Irish Times, “the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the U.S. until now: pity.”
4. At its peak, Henry Ford’s Willow Run Plant produced a B-24 Liberator every two hours, around the clock. Shipyards in Long Beach and Sausalito spat out Liberty ships at a rate of two a day for four years
5. But freedom and affluence came with a price. The United States, virtually a demilitarized nation on the eve of the Second World War, never stood down in the wake of victory. To this day, American troops are deployed in 150 countries. Since the 1970s, China has not once gone to war; the U.S. has not spent a day at peace. President Jimmy Carter recently noted that in its 242-year history, America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace.
6. More than any other country, the United States in the post-war era lionized the individual at the expense of community and family. It was the sociological equivalent of splitting the atom. What was gained in terms of mobility and personal freedom came at the expense of common purpose. In wide swaths of America, the family as an institution lost its grounding. By the 1960s, 40 percent of marriages were ending in divorce. Only six percent of American homes had grandparents living beneath the same roof as grandchildren; elders were abandoned to retirement homes
7. The country of the 1950s resembled Denmark as much as the America of today. Marginal tax rates for the wealthy were 90 percent. The salaries of CEOs were, on average, just 20 times that of their mid-management employees. Today, the base pay of those at the top is commonly 400 times that of their salaried staff, with many earning orders of magnitude more in stock options and perks. The elite one percent of Americans control $30 trillion of assets, while the bottom half have more debt than assets.
8. Trump’s performance and America’s crisis deflected attention from China’s own mishandling of the initial outbreak in Wuhan, not to mention its move to crush democracy in Hong Kong.
9. The American president lives to cultivate resentments, demonize his opponents, validate hatred. His main tool of governance is the lie; as of July 9th, 2020, the documented tally of his distortions and false statements numbered 20,055.

These last three are my favourite and sum up every neocon loser on this board. Every..single..one...of...you.

As they stare into the mirror and perceive only the myth of their exceptionalism, Americans remain almost bizarrely incapable of seeing what has actually become of their country. The republic that defined the free flow of information as the life blood of democracy, today ranks 45th among nations when it comes to press freedom.

The American cult of the individual denies not just community but the very idea of society. No one owes anything to anyone. All must be prepared to fight for everything: education, shelter, food, medical care. What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness.


American politicians dismiss the Scandinavian model as creeping socialism, communism lite, something that would never work in the United States. In truth, social democracies are successful precisely because they foment dynamic capitalist economies that just happen to benefit every tier of society.

A well written article and a solid summary. I might plagiarize some of your thoughts. Here is a zillion rep points.

 

[Correll]

why the US is fucked. Been trying to articulate it for years but never been able to do so properly. And no, this is not anti-American. Like most people in the world, a strong US (as it used to be) is much better than a strong China. So here's the article and some of its highlights.

The Unraveling of America

Anthropologist Wade Davis writes about Covid-19 and its devastating impact on the international standing of the United States.

www.rollingstone.com

Some highlights:

1. But what surely does is the absolutely devastating impact that the pandemic has had on the reputation and international standing of the United States of America.
2. COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism.
3. For more than two centuries, reported the Irish Times, “the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the U.S. until now: pity.”
4. At its peak, Henry Ford’s Willow Run Plant produced a B-24 Liberator every two hours, around the clock. Shipyards in Long Beach and Sausalito spat out Liberty ships at a rate of two a day for four years
5. But freedom and affluence came with a price. The United States, virtually a demilitarized nation on the eve of the Second World War, never stood down in the wake of victory. To this day, American troops are deployed in 150 countries. Since the 1970s, China has not once gone to war; the U.S. has not spent a day at peace. President Jimmy Carter recently noted that in its 242-year history, America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace.
6. More than any other country, the United States in the post-war era lionized the individual at the expense of community and family. It was the sociological equivalent of splitting the atom. What was gained in terms of mobility and personal freedom came at the expense of common purpose. In wide swaths of America, the family as an institution lost its grounding. By the 1960s, 40 percent of marriages were ending in divorce. Only six percent of American homes had grandparents living beneath the same roof as grandchildren; elders were abandoned to retirement homes
7. The country of the 1950s resembled Denmark as much as the America of today. Marginal tax rates for the wealthy were 90 percent. The salaries of CEOs were, on average, just 20 times that of their mid-management employees. Today, the base pay of those at the top is commonly 400 times that of their salaried staff, with many earning orders of magnitude more in stock options and perks. The elite one percent of Americans control $30 trillion of assets, while the bottom half have more debt than assets.
8. Trump’s performance and America’s crisis deflected attention from China’s own mishandling of the initial outbreak in Wuhan, not to mention its move to crush democracy in Hong Kong.
9. The American president lives to cultivate resentments, demonize his opponents, validate hatred. His main tool of governance is the lie; as of July 9th, 2020, the documented tally of his distortions and false statements numbered 20,055.

These last three are my favourite and sum up every neocon loser on this board. Every..single..one...of...you.

As they stare into the mirror and perceive only the myth of their exceptionalism, Americans remain almost bizarrely incapable of seeing what has actually become of their country. The republic that defined the free flow of information as the life blood of democracy, today ranks 45th among nations when it comes to press freedom.

The American cult of the individual denies not just community but the very idea of society. No one owes anything to anyone. All must be prepared to fight for everything: education, shelter, food, medical care. What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness.


American politicians dismiss the Scandinavian model as creeping socialism, communism lite, something that would never work in the United States. In truth, social democracies are successful precisely because they foment dynamic capitalist economies that just happen to benefit every tier of society.

The image of America abroad is not important. The rest of the world, if they think so poorly of US, are welcome to end their various alliances with us and tell us to get the fuck out.

They won't, because they know we are a great ally to have.

So, all of that is just the whining of ungrateful children.


The US's problem is a failure of confidence caused by the left.

That’s hilarious and completely delusional, but I’m sure you believe it. It might have been true decades ago, but not now.

Our government has gone rogue and is completely controlled by transnational capitalists. It’s all about protecting the dollars dominance as the world’s reserve currency.

You clearly aren’t aware that any nation that refuses to go along with our corrupt government is attacked ruthlessly. See Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela. The rest of the world hates our government, but fears us. It will all come crashing down eventually and you will be totally taken by surprise. LOL.

THe polices of globalism, are an issue. One that we cannot address honestly because of the failure of our political class and the vile media.


This is part of the problem.

My point that the complaints of the op being bullshit, though, ,stands. And the opinion of the rest of the world is utterly irrelevant.

 

[gipper]

why the US is fucked. Been trying to articulate it for years but never been able to do so properly. And no, this is not anti-American. Like most people in the world, a strong US (as it used to be) is much better than a strong China. So here's the article and some of its highlights.

The Unraveling of America

Anthropologist Wade Davis writes about Covid-19 and its devastating impact on the international standing of the United States.

www.rollingstone.com

Some highlights:

1. But what surely does is the absolutely devastating impact that the pandemic has had on the reputation and international standing of the United States of America.
2. COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism.
3. For more than two centuries, reported the Irish Times, “the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the U.S. until now: pity.”
4. At its peak, Henry Ford’s Willow Run Plant produced a B-24 Liberator every two hours, around the clock. Shipyards in Long Beach and Sausalito spat out Liberty ships at a rate of two a day for four years
5. But freedom and affluence came with a price. The United States, virtually a demilitarized nation on the eve of the Second World War, never stood down in the wake of victory. To this day, American troops are deployed in 150 countries. Since the 1970s, China has not once gone to war; the U.S. has not spent a day at peace. President Jimmy Carter recently noted that in its 242-year history, America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace.
6. More than any other country, the United States in the post-war era lionized the individual at the expense of community and family. It was the sociological equivalent of splitting the atom. What was gained in terms of mobility and personal freedom came at the expense of common purpose. In wide swaths of America, the family as an institution lost its grounding. By the 1960s, 40 percent of marriages were ending in divorce. Only six percent of American homes had grandparents living beneath the same roof as grandchildren; elders were abandoned to retirement homes
7. The country of the 1950s resembled Denmark as much as the America of today. Marginal tax rates for the wealthy were 90 percent. The salaries of CEOs were, on average, just 20 times that of their mid-management employees. Today, the base pay of those at the top is commonly 400 times that of their salaried staff, with many earning orders of magnitude more in stock options and perks. The elite one percent of Americans control $30 trillion of assets, while the bottom half have more debt than assets.
8. Trump’s performance and America’s crisis deflected attention from China’s own mishandling of the initial outbreak in Wuhan, not to mention its move to crush democracy in Hong Kong.
9. The American president lives to cultivate resentments, demonize his opponents, validate hatred. His main tool of governance is the lie; as of July 9th, 2020, the documented tally of his distortions and false statements numbered 20,055.

These last three are my favourite and sum up every neocon loser on this board. Every..single..one...of...you.

As they stare into the mirror and perceive only the myth of their exceptionalism, Americans remain almost bizarrely incapable of seeing what has actually become of their country. The republic that defined the free flow of information as the life blood of democracy, today ranks 45th among nations when it comes to press freedom.

The American cult of the individual denies not just community but the very idea of society. No one owes anything to anyone. All must be prepared to fight for everything: education, shelter, food, medical care. What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness.


American politicians dismiss the Scandinavian model as creeping socialism, communism lite, something that would never work in the United States. In truth, social democracies are successful precisely because they foment dynamic capitalist economies that just happen to benefit every tier of society.

The image of America abroad is not important. The rest of the world, if they think so poorly of US, are welcome to end their various alliances with us and tell us to get the fuck out.

They won't, because they know we are a great ally to have.

So, all of that is just the whining of ungrateful children.


The US's problem is a failure of confidence caused by the left.

That’s hilarious and completely delusional, but I’m sure you believe it. It might have been true decades ago, but not now.

Our government has gone rogue and is completely controlled by transnational capitalists. It’s all about protecting the dollars dominance as the world’s reserve currency.

You clearly aren’t aware that any nation that refuses to go along with our corrupt government is attacked ruthlessly. See Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela. The rest of the world hates our government, but fears us. It will all come crashing down eventually and you will be totally taken by surprise. LOL.

THe polices of globalism, are an issue. One that we cannot address honestly because of the failure of our political class and the vile media.


This is part of the problem.

My point that the complaints of the op being bullshit, though, ,stands. And the opinion of the rest of the world is utterly irrelevant.

Okay I’m fine with that, but your response doesn’t support your prior post or address my response to that post.

The world fears our government because they know it’s a warmongering tyranny. Our government is not a great ally of any nation, other than maybe Israel. Thinking we are a great ally is silly and uninformed.

 

[BluesLegend]

Hey you cry baby left of center's are free to pack your shit and move to Canada if the USA is so horrible. Trust me we do NOT need you.

 

[sparky]

At this moment we're essentially a caricature of ourselves. The Ugly Americans.

uhmm.....well...i clean up good! does that count?

~S~

 

[Dr Grump]

When the community is in a sinking lifeboat I'll swim
Fuck the American left time to thin the heard you fucking irrelevant foreigner. they created the mess they are the disease

Are you drunk? This above makes absolutely no sense on any level - especially grammatically.

 

[Dr Grump]

I skimmed. All stupid shit I have seen before.

America needs to deal with some internal issues, and most of them boil down to you lefties needing to be kicked to the curb.

You didn't read it? Why am I not surprised. You are a typical sound bite neocon. Never looks at any indepth other than your own belly-button.
It's not about your internal issues.

 

[Dr Grump]

Truth be known.. Grumps is down right jealous and even more totally despondent because HE can't come to America! He's locked into
his parents basement, totally dependent on them for everything. Hence his jealousy !

Exhibit A on why the US is fucked. Pity...pity...pity....is all I have for what you could have been.

 

[22lcidw]

why the US is fucked. Been trying to articulate it for years but never been able to do so properly. And no, this is not anti-American. Like most people in the world, a strong US (as it used to be) is much better than a strong China. So here's the article and some of its highlights.

The Unraveling of America

Anthropologist Wade Davis writes about Covid-19 and its devastating impact on the international standing of the United States.

www.rollingstone.com

Some highlights:

1. But what surely does is the absolutely devastating impact that the pandemic has had on the reputation and international standing of the United States of America.
2. COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism.
3. For more than two centuries, reported the Irish Times, “the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the U.S. until now: pity.”
4. At its peak, Henry Ford’s Willow Run Plant produced a B-24 Liberator every two hours, around the clock. Shipyards in Long Beach and Sausalito spat out Liberty ships at a rate of two a day for four years
5. But freedom and affluence came with a price. The United States, virtually a demilitarized nation on the eve of the Second World War, never stood down in the wake of victory. To this day, American troops are deployed in 150 countries. Since the 1970s, China has not once gone to war; the U.S. has not spent a day at peace. President Jimmy Carter recently noted that in its 242-year history, America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace.
6. More than any other country, the United States in the post-war era lionized the individual at the expense of community and family. It was the sociological equivalent of splitting the atom. What was gained in terms of mobility and personal freedom came at the expense of common purpose. In wide swaths of America, the family as an institution lost its grounding. By the 1960s, 40 percent of marriages were ending in divorce. Only six percent of American homes had grandparents living beneath the same roof as grandchildren; elders were abandoned to retirement homes
7. The country of the 1950s resembled Denmark as much as the America of today. Marginal tax rates for the wealthy were 90 percent. The salaries of CEOs were, on average, just 20 times that of their mid-management employees. Today, the base pay of those at the top is commonly 400 times that of their salaried staff, with many earning orders of magnitude more in stock options and perks. The elite one percent of Americans control $30 trillion of assets, while the bottom half have more debt than assets.
8. Trump’s performance and America’s crisis deflected attention from China’s own mishandling of the initial outbreak in Wuhan, not to mention its move to crush democracy in Hong Kong.
9. The American president lives to cultivate resentments, demonize his opponents, validate hatred. His main tool of governance is the lie; as of July 9th, 2020, the documented tally of his distortions and false statements numbered 20,055.

These last three are my favourite and sum up every neocon loser on this board. Every..single..one...of...you.

As they stare into the mirror and perceive only the myth of their exceptionalism, Americans remain almost bizarrely incapable of seeing what has actually become of their country. The republic that defined the free flow of information as the life blood of democracy, today ranks 45th among nations when it comes to press freedom.

The American cult of the individual denies not just community but the very idea of society. No one owes anything to anyone. All must be prepared to fight for everything: education, shelter, food, medical care. What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness.


American politicians dismiss the Scandinavian model as creeping socialism, communism lite, something that would never work in the United States. In truth, social democracies are successful precisely because they foment dynamic capitalist economies that just happen to benefit every tier of society.

At this moment we're essentially a caricature of ourselves. The Ugly Americans.

And those who support this remain absolutely ignorant about how they're handing the keys to the very people they loathe.

As individuals, in religious ways, God gave each of us.. free choice. As a citizen of a nation...... we have free choice. Basing decisions on that with our flaws can make things better or worse. People who make things worse, tend to scream the loudest. In all of this, there are people who take advantage of others. In all ways at all economic levels. So when condemning people, get them first.

1000 a day DEAD?? and you AH's won't wear masks ,keep safe distances??? Take your free choice and shove it back up trumps butt

You are emoting to much. That same free choice gives us plenty of chances to make many bad decisions. Some of them can keep you impoverished or make you impoverished.

 

[Dr Grump]

THe polices of globalism, are an issue. One that we cannot address honestly because of the failure of our political class and the vile media.
This is part of the problem.
My point that the complaints of the op being bullshit, though, ,stands. And the opinion of the rest of the world is utterly irrelevant.

Bullshit. You see globalism as socialism and communism. As the piece rightly points out, all you conservatives care about are yourselves. "how much do I get?'.."Who cares if they can't get medical coverage"
These were the most telling paragraphs in the whole piece (I didn't highlight because it would go way above your "I-and-my-family-are-the-only-thing-that-matters-in-the-world-and-fuck-everybody-else" mentality. But here they are. This is why you are failing and will fail. And you don't get it. And BTW, while Canada is the example, it could be any other social democracy in the world he could be talking about.

"When American friends ask for an explanation, I encourage them to reflect on the last time they bought groceries at their neighborhood Safeway. In the U.S. there is almost always a racial, economic, cultural, and educational chasm between the consumer and the check-out staff that is difficult if not impossible to bridge. In Canada, the experience is quite different. One interacts if not as peers, certainly as members of a wider community. The reason for this is very simple. The checkout person may not share your level of affluence, but they know that you know that they are getting a living wage because of the unions. And they know that you know that their kids and yours most probably go to the same neighborhood public school. Third, and most essential, they know that you know that if their children get sick, they will get exactly the same level of medical care not only of your children but of those of the prime minister. These three strands woven together become the fabric of Canadian social democracy.

Canada performed well during the COVID crisis because of our social contract, the bonds of community, the trust for each other and our institutions, our health care system in particular, with hospitals that cater to the medical needs of the collective, not the individual, and certainly not the private investor who views every hospital bed as if a rental property. The measure of wealth in a civilized nation is not the currency accumulated by the lucky few, but rather the strength and resonance of social relations and the bonds of reciprocity that connect all people in common purpose."