What makes a country great?

[frigidweirdo]

So, how does a strong military make the country better for you?

A strong education system might make a country great, but the right doesn't seem to want such strong education.

Business is great in the US for some, but for all? Some people are fighting against large corporations who have, in recent years, taken control of government.

But smaller businesses are suffering.

https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/advocacy/United_States.pdf

99.7% of businesses are small businesses, but only 48% of people work for them.

Figure one shows that since 2000 the larger businesses have increased while smaller businesses have decreased.

You moved the goal post. The question is what makes a country great, not what makes a country great for you. The difference is Libertarian wants a great country while Liberals want a great country for you. Two different things.

I'm sorry if you don't see that a great country is one that is great in someone's eyes. Two people can talk about a country, one can say it's great, the other can say it's not. Does that make it great or not? It doesn't make it either. It's a subjective thing.

Some will say it's great, Trump says it's not.

Well, Libertarians want a great country in the manner that they see as great. The same as Liberals and Conservatives. That's the point of the thread. What people think.

A great team is one that always win. IF they allow the fat boy on their team, they're not going to win. So they pick the athletic one. A great country kicks ass.

I disagree. A great country is one that can co-exist. The US goes around the world kicking ass like the bully at school. The bully at school isn't great. When he graduates, or if he graduates, he's going to find the nerds earning more money that he does.

Where do you think cops come from?
They used to be your bullys.
Takes a certain mentality to be a cop.

Some of them are, sure. The bullies at my school became low paid muppets, they couldn't get into the police.

 

[Crixus]

Often Americans will say America is the greatest.
Canadians will say Canada is the greatest.
French will say France is the greatest.
And so on. It's not hard to see why people think their own country is the greatest, they've been indoctrinated into it, or they've just grown up there and are comfortable with it, or they don't know anywhere else... or maybe other reasons.

But, if you're going to give a UNIVERSAL assessment of what makes a country great, what would those things be?

What makes America great ? Hmm, say we were in some third world shithole. Hati as an excample or some place in Africa or Mexico. Say you were a news reporter and you said something along the lines of what some in the media say about our presidant. In those countries, said president can have you and your family picked up, your women beaton and raped in front of you, all your property seized and eventually have you chopped up with machetes and fed to pigs. In America, a guy can accuse a president of not being a citizen and it’s all good. We can call our president a liar to his face here wonder what happens in Guatemala. Men, that’s just for starters. I kiss every one of my lucky stars and thank every god in every pantheon that they and fate saw fit to let me be borne in America.

I guess America would seem great if people kept comparing it to the worst countries. Funny how people like you never compare it to Denmark, Iceland, Sweden or New Zealand.

Also many of the worst countries got that way by way of American interference.

Because there is no comparison. If I wanted to live in any of those places I would go and do that, except for the fact that THEY HAVE EXTREAMLY STRICT IMMIGRATION POLICY. You can’t just go live there. That’s one thing about YOU people. Always say how great it is some place else yet you won’t go live there.

 

[Tuatara]

Often Americans will say America is the greatest.
Canadians will say Canada is the greatest.
French will say France is the greatest.
And so on. It's not hard to see why people think their own country is the greatest, they've been indoctrinated into it, or they've just grown up there and are comfortable with it, or they don't know anywhere else... or maybe other reasons.

But, if you're going to give a UNIVERSAL assessment of what makes a country great, what would those things be?

What makes America great ? Hmm, say we were in some third world shithole. Hati as an excample or some place in Africa or Mexico. Say you were a news reporter and you said something along the lines of what some in the media say about our presidant. In those countries, said president can have you and your family picked up, your women beaton and raped in front of you, all your property seized and eventually have you chopped up with machetes and fed to pigs. In America, a guy can accuse a president of not being a citizen and it’s all good. We can call our president a liar to his face here wonder what happens in Guatemala. Men, that’s just for starters. I kiss every one of my lucky stars and thank every god in every pantheon that they and fate saw fit to let me be borne in America.

I guess America would seem great if people kept comparing it to the worst countries. Funny how people like you never compare it to Denmark, Iceland, Sweden or New Zealand.

Also many of the worst countries got that way by way of American interference.

Because there is no comparison. If I wanted to live in any of those places I would go and do that, except for the fact that THEY HAVE EXTREAMLY STRICT IMMIGRATION POLICY. You can’t just go live there. That’s one thing about YOU people. Always say how great it is some place else yet you won’t go live there.

Where did I say that? I was pointing out the fact that you were comparing America to poverty stricken countries and not countries that score high on desirable places to live. You seem to be going off on a tangent here.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Often Americans will say America is the greatest.
Canadians will say Canada is the greatest.
French will say France is the greatest.
And so on. It's not hard to see why people think their own country is the greatest, they've been indoctrinated into it, or they've just grown up there and are comfortable with it, or they don't know anywhere else... or maybe other reasons.

But, if you're going to give a UNIVERSAL assessment of what makes a country great, what would those things be?

America is going through a stage right now.

Republicans are racist. They are anti education. Anti science. They hate the Middle Class and especially the poor.

They love corporations and billionaires.

But the country is catching on to the damage being caused by the Republican Party.

Once the damage to trade catches up, the wound coming from the GOP will fester for probably longer then than the terrible GOP recession they handed to Obama. It's going to take a long time to heal the damage.

But what's at stake is the future of the country. Are we a democracy or are we a, well, there's a whole list. A theocracy, a plutocracy, a oligarchy, and worse.

The GOP has to be defeated. As Trump has proven, they are a terrible danger to the world.

They want to abolish the EPA. Apparently they like living in filth, and they think poison water is OK.

They deflect by insisting the Democrats want to redistribute the wealth of the nation to the middle class and the poor, but they truth is, the GOP wants to redistribute the wealth of the nation to the top 1%. We know that for a fact. We learned it from their current policies.

 

[yiostheoy]

Often Americans will say America is the greatest.
Canadians will say Canada is the greatest.
French will say France is the greatest.
And so on. It's not hard to see why people think their own country is the greatest, they've been indoctrinated into it, or they've just grown up there and are comfortable with it, or they don't know anywhere else... or maybe other reasons.

But, if you're going to give a UNIVERSAL assessment of what makes a country great, what would those things be?

Canada is a parasite nation that sits next door to a superpower.

There is nothing great about Canada. It is just there.

France is a socialist experiment that has gone wrong since the French Revolution in 1789. There is nothing great about France. They have gotten their butts kicked in every war since 1870 by the Germans and by the British. France is just there.

 

[yiostheoy]

The USA has bled for England, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Morocco, Australia, Philippines, South Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq. That's what makes the USA great.