When was it, again, that the United States stopped being "Great"?

[irosie91]

America never has been great.

Has any land or culture ever been "GREAT"? ----in your vaunted opinion?

 

[EMH]

The late 1990s when the GOP changed from

a fiscally conservative party patriotic to America

to

a left wing big government party of Zionist Fascism loyal only to country ISRAEL

 

[CrusaderFrank]

A conspicuous distinction between advanced democracies and authoritarian regimes is the citizen’s right to criticize their political leaders without fear of being targeted for petty vendettas or worse. Rather, in democratic nations, those political leaders are subject to the law, although they may throw their tantrums at being convicted by juries of their peers when they cannot evade trial, as they vilify any judicial system that does not kowtow to their whims. They also contrive methods to intimidate and subjugate the legislative branch.

Authoritarian regimes are often characterized by submissive personality cults who venerate a “Dear Leader’ who exploits their sense of grievance by demonizing the “other,” and conjuring up a paradise lost, a mythical golden age when their ilk was supreme, a time to which their El Supremo promises retrogression.

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Bullying is the customary means of wielding power, blatant lies in copious abundance, and, of course, the targeting of academia, science, and medicine wherever empirical data contradicts their self-serving ideological dogma. Some may champion a sham meritocracy, one in which pretexts to severely restrict the talent pool are concocted and intellectual potential suppressed.

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Was the United States “Great” when one gender and one race enjoyed dominion over all others? Before efforts to redress the inherent, enduring, inflicted inequalities were undertaken?

The usual suspects need to cling to the illusion of superiority that years and years of their de facto and de iure discrimination conferred upon them.

The racial and gender profile that wields dominion in wealth and power in America bleats that it is being persecuted.

Shouldn't White males find that embarrassing?

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