I Stand W/Cuomo. US Not That Great. Electing Bush 2X & Then Nutcase Trump Answers That.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Except for winning WWII the US is not that great a country really. Basically founded on slavery you have to look at our entire history. There was genocide against the Indians, the Civil war over slavery, and then the evils of the Guilded Age and our record with civil rights just to name a few things.

Add up all of our history and we really are not that great a nation. And we have not been since Reagan. It is all an illusion. Our greatness is fake because racist still abounds.

We are kidding ourselves that we are a grease nation.

[Older Than I Look]

1. Some men see things as they are and say, "why?"; I dream things that never were and say, "why not?"

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. But we are a grease(heh heh) GREAT nation..

The population of America always helps the world. The Clinton Years were good for me. I liked the music then too. Pres Obama was tough financially, but, I felt safe going to work and missing the news a week or so at a time and the world didnt end.

[moondust]

3. Too many dark chapters.

Obviously much darker for some than for others. Didn't have to be so bad for so many but...greed, lust for power and fame, assholes...

[ProudLib72]

4. Let's burn it all down and have a do over

This time we can base it on Plato's Republic instead of Idiocracy.

[Grassy Knoll]

5. In Their Minds: More Bombs Equal Greatness..

...To Improve, We Have To Make Sure Idiot Republicans Never
Step Foot In The White House Ever Again, But Alas.

[Thekaspervote]

6. Speaking the truth seems not to be very popular... sad

[brooklynite]

7. This is a continuing liberal tactical error...

Whatever your issues are, saying your Country is “not that great” means you cede patriotism to the other side. It’s also a statement that the average voter will never relate to.

[CanSocDem]

9. "Patriotism" isn't helpful.

It's been looking like a cover-up since the 60's and the introduction of the bumper sticker "America-Love It or Leave It"

People started thinking about all the shit their country was asking them to do, including dying for someone else's business interests.

Many concluded, right then, that all this "greatness" talk was just part of the SALES PITCH. And, as the OP alludes, this 'sales pitch' has worn itself out.

And this leaves two kinds of people in the USA: Those still willing to die for someone else's business interests and those who put Human Life above the free market.


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[wishstar]

8. Cuomo would have helped Dems more by saying how Trump is making America less great

with Trump's trouncing on human rights and abusing the power of his authority to the detriment of this country.