# Born & Raised & Living in the USA: If you DESPISED the USA, How would you destroy it?

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**Created:** [December 27, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-raised-living-in-the-usa-if-you-despised-the-usa-how-would-you-destroy-it/607491 "2011-12-27T04:19:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/born-raised-living-in-the-usa-if-you-despised-the-usa-how-would-you-destroy-it/607491/25 "2011-12-27T18:44:57Z")

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> [@Lobohan](#):
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> What nation on Earth can destroy us without a nuclear war? What nation on Earth is stupid enough and has the capability to do a large scale nuclear strike?
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> Aside from a meteor hitting Kansas, a disease killing off all corn production, or an EMP (ala Newt) frying our power grid, the best you could hope for is to destroy the American economy and break its spirit.

Well, first of all, the conservative platform you outlined\* was what generally existed in the US prior to about 1970, and we were doing just peachy. So, the idea that it would destroy the economy doesn’t really make much sense.

Secondly, no matter what you might think of the conservative platform, are you really unable to think of another party’s platform that would be worse? None?

\*Excluding those parts, like outlawing birth control, which are not actually part of that platform

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