[Liberty4eva]

Originally Posted by lostalex

I'm just saying, perspective is important. That's all. America is not the whole world. The world is much larger than America, and it's important to keep perspective about America's place in a much larger world.

America is about to celebrate being only 235 years old tomorrow. The world was a fvvcked up place long before America existed. Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya were 3rd world sheet holes long before us.

It's important to remember that America has made the world a better place, not a worse place.

Even if the US has made the world a better place, it's no longer making the world a better place. Our biggest export today is paper dollars and we have this tendency to treat 3rd world countries like children that are unable to rule themselves.

America is in decline. The country is bankrupt. Hyperinflation is coming.

Compared to the people from 1776, people have no backbone today. The citizens back in the 1760s and early 1770s went ballistic when Parliament tried to tax a few pennies on their tea. Contrast that to today when government tries to force people to buy health insurance and the vast majority of people go back to listening to their ipods. The founders and citizens back in 1776 would have fought this government that now occupies Washington DC to the death. I would argue that the nation that was created 235 years ago no longer exists. The "New World" has come to have most of the trappings of the old one. And the people across this "fruited plain" no longer have the zeal for economic and personal liberty that made them special.

So, I once thought the US was a force for good but no longer. We're never going to be a force for good again until we go back to our roots and rediscover what made the nation great in the first place.