View Poll Results: Americas Greatest Strength is the ability to adapt and take on new ideas

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    Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
    This is true. This kind of with us or against us threatens to undo 200 years of relatively good and sound decision making.
    Kinda going off what Uesugi said, I think there is a portion out there who thinks we're good enough as-if, have advanced and progressed enough, and further change is unwanted. Or "stepping down from perfection" as it were. I think America's long fixation with its own superiority has helped fuel this mindset and I think we've slipped from being the 'best' in so many ways because of it. There are too many people who think something inherent about being American is what makes us better, rather than what we do with being Americans.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi View Post
    Kinda going off what Uesugi said, I think there is a portion out there who thinks we're good enough as-if, have advanced and progressed enough, and further change is unwanted. Or "stepping down from perfection" as it were. I think America's long fixation with its own superiority has helped fuel this mindset and I think we've slipped from being the 'best' in so many ways because of it. There are too many people who think something inherent about being American is what makes us better, rather than what we do with being Americans.
    I believe the idea of America is the best.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
    I believe the idea of America is the best.
    But uh, there are things we rank behind Latvia in.

    It's all fine and good to say America is best in a prideful, my country right or wrong sort of way. But I'm more interested in our quality of living and educational standards than just a slogan.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi View Post
    But uh, there are things we rank behind Latvia in.

    It's all fine and good to say America is best in a prideful, my country right or wrong sort of way. But I'm more interested in our quality of living and educational standards than just a slogan.
    Well I said idea not practice. I never perpetuated a slogan.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
    Well I said idea not practice. I never perpetuated a slogan.
    Yep, IMO, the American ideal is perfectly fine only the manner its being implemented. Just look at the mess we're in right now....

    What the US should never do is what Koga No Goshi mentioned earlier: maintain a mindset of superiority over the rest of the world that ends up breeding ignorance. Just look at Ming dynasty China. The chinese civilization was arguably the best in the world during the beginning of their reign so the Ming emperors just took a look around, burned down the world's biggest fleet, and shut down Chinese interaction with the rest of the world. Thus, China missed out on all of the European innovations and ended up in a huge mess that still partially accounts for China's relative instability right now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TevashSzat View Post
    What the US should never do is what Koga No Goshi mentioned earlier: maintain a mindset of superiority over the rest of the world that ends up breeding ignorance.
    We're so already there baby. ;)
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    I think we readily adopt new ideas etc.

    ....and it only takes two or three whacks from a two-by-four to get our attention!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi View Post
    But uh, there are things we rank behind Latvia in.

    It's all fine and good to say America is best in a prideful, my country right or wrong sort of way. But I'm more interested in our quality of living and educational standards than just a slogan.
    Country rankings are often misleading. For example, the massive influx of mexican immigrants bring America's rankings down in many areas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
    Country rankings are often misleading. For example, the massive influx of mexican immigrants bring America's rankings down in many areas.
    Just Mexicans?
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    Yo'ure al commie ATHISTS!!

    JESUS is Americas STRENHGT!!



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    I think it's defense of Judeo-Christian and Western values is its greatest strength. To be honest, I support America as long as America supports those values.

    I think that everyone can have them, though. America is a tool to spread them and give them to all.
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