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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Yes.
The greatest economic power in the history of the world.
The greatest military power in the history of the world.
The place more people want to come to, than any other place in the world.
The entity that gives more assistance and aid to the desperate and destitute of the world.
The country that all others look to in leadership of our planet.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Yes, we created the Muscular White Jesus
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Yes, and I'm having a great time enjoying it. To quote fellow Minnesotan Bob Dylan " I don't have time for politics"
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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YES:
This:
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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^^^
Looks like a scene from The Walking Dead.
I agree things could definitely be better here, butnour country can preent remarkable opportunities for those willing to work hard. My wife's hairdresser was pregnant and living near Chernobyl when it erupted. She wasn't even sure whether she could do anything other than breastfeed due to the extensive contamination. Her and her husband were lucky to arrive here, though with nothing. Her son born healthy and graduated medical son (though sadly she has cancer.
Or Sonia Sotomayor. Born to immigrant parents from Puerto Rico. Father died when she was young and raised by her mother. Through hardwork and the public education system, she went to law school and now sits on the US Supreme Court. Where else do stories like this happen? I get really angry when all the self righteous dbags here complain about our country because they have a hard time buying assault weapons. So freaking clueless how well they have it.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Have your little joke, Russ. You're going to die, too.
Thanks for the headsup. When do you start your killing spree?
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Yes, in the scheme of things we are lucky to be living in America compared to a great many places. There are definitely places that do a better job of enabling a quality life for all citizens because they don't have the same ignorant stigmas about "socialism", places that take a more rational science-based approach to solving collective societal problems. But there are more places that do a worse job- from honor killings and female castration to starvation to open warfare and kidnapping and environmental pollution. But these are not the peers that most Americans want to consider our nation among.
We enjoy near-universal access to electricity, water, heating, baseline public education. We are slipping more and more in terms of quality healthcare and education. Or maybe it's more accurate to say our upper-class are not slipping but the divide between rich and poor is becoming more and more apparent in terms of healthcare and education. We have a national crisis in terms of treating mental illness and how it relates to homelessness, and the rate of homeless and hunger (and then drug addictions and crime) is only going to grow as we have more and more people dislocated from jobs by automation and outsourcing, with no national backup plan to deal with these looming problems. We have a strong lack of national leadership to look squarely at these problems because too many voters want to keep their heads in the sand and pretend that these problems won't affect us all.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Yes: Wilderness, realtively good freedom, great food.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Yes.
The greatest economic power in the history of the world.
The greatest military power in the history of the world.
The place more people want to come to, than any other place in the world.
The entity that gives more assistance and aid to the desperate and destitute of the world.
The country that all others look to in leadership of our planet.
I'm with Ken.
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Chewybacca
Trad climber
Kelly Morgan, Whitefish MT
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Yes and no. We are great and terrible at the same time.
For example, on one hand various minorities are closer to equal treatment than any time in our history, on the other hand bigotries directed at minorities still exists in great abundance.
I'm glad to call the USA home, even with our many flaws.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Yes. But it has slipped significantly.
Time to bring it back.
America has lost it's soul.
I'm with Dean.
Seems like a trick question tho. America will always be great, because of what it was and how it came to be.
We have grown far from the principles that defined our country. And made it great.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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We have grown far from the principles that defined our country. And made it great. This has been posted a couple of times and I'm curious why no one has bothered to describe what they mean? Easy to be Trump and say everything sucks (and only you can fix it). Much harder to cite facts to support one's view.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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No. Americans are really stupid people.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Malemute is feeling all superior because The Economist had its cover article
about how Kanada is the new bastion of liberty, or democracy, whatever.
Just wait til their real estate bubble bursts.
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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People who live in the US should look up the defintion of America in the dictionary. And Malamute, Canada's poop stinks just as bad as anyone elses:
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Yeah, they talk a good Khumbaya up there like letting 25,000 Syrians in while denying my
autistic niece any meaningful help. And then their nazi immigration officers give me a hard
time trying to come visit her. Been through a lot of passport controls but never one as
unpleasant as Kanada's, and I was coming to see FAMILY!
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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World opinion is not without irony, Malemute. The reference you posted also remarked:
In the survey participants were also asked:
“If there were no barriers to living in any country of the world, which country would you like to live in?”
Despite being the perceived largest threat to world peace, the US still topped the tables ...
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Branscomb
Trad climber
Lander, WY
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America is just irrelevant anymore. All we are is dangerous.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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The USA can lead 5.10c!
USA!
USA!!
USA!!
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