I’m awful sick of leftists who loudly declare that America is a has-been, or that it’s weak, or that it can’t succeed - who then demand that America attempts the actually impossible with a 100% success rate and that it must come off perfectly immediately, with no downsides at all. I consider myself something of a cynic, and even I’m tired of the leftist dogma of relative suckiness, whereby they’ve planted a strange lodestone in the culture, religion, and society of the west, and the closer anything is to it the more hideously evil/competant it is and the goofier/incompetent it is.
America is a good country, a strong country, and a beacon of hope in the world. It doesn’t have to be perfect; it can and is always improving. You are not helping. In fact, your brand of cynicism, in which everything American (except people who agree America is evil, I suppose) is always as bad as it can be and getting worse, is patently ridiculous. I’m despise Fred Phelps types or machine politicians like the older Republicans. That doesn’t mean your brand of politics has any value. You don’t build up. You don’t even criticize because you want things better. It’s simply blind dogma that America is bad, anything done in America is bad, and anything vaguely American is bad. America is always becoming a theocracy, a dictatorship, a fascist state, a land of monsters and nightmares and oppression. Funny how these things are always coming to America but actually land somewhere else?
Guess what? Europe and Canada don’t actually have awesome health care. Their system sare screwed up as badly as ours - worse, if you count in the possibility for improvement and the opportunities for new medical technology to develop. There’s a reason why elites around the world come to the U. S. of A. for treatment. And yeah, the poor don’t get as good a care as they might. So what? You’re judging by a standard which arbitrarily includes only what you want it to include. You don’t want to admit that most technologies start out for then elite and move outward as costs come down. You don’t want to admit that the American system, for all its faults, actually gives people what they want - the very best they can get.
Because that would mean not pretending that the world would become perfect if we just tossed everything out the window to follow Brainglutton. That evil men do evil things. There aren’t enough resources for everything all the time, and pretty commonly comes down to hard choices, which you seem to pretend don’t exist, or that the choices are all Bush’s fault, or that other countries don’thave hard choices because they’re not evil Amerikkka.
Guess what? I don’t entirely know how to “perfect” American health care. I’ve got some ideas, and they’d probably help. But costs will continue to rise because people want more and more and more and will never accept being told “no.” So they pay. Supply and demand are absolute laws everywhere, and legislating them away only makes their impact more painful. And this holds true in Britain, France, Germany and Canada.
Guess what? Diplomacy always and everywhere involves dealing with people you don’t like. I don’t like the U.N. It’s a squatting disaster, which is spiralling down the tubes as third-rate kleptocracies find they can excercise moral authority (somehow) over western bureaucrats and agencies. It’s also useful, and because we need forums it remains. I don’t like Musharraf that much. I think the Japanese and the Turks still won’t fully admit crimes committed in living memory in the hopes that everyone will soon forget as the victims die off. We deal with them anyway. And amazingly, BG, despite your continuing belief that every peice of bad news is a disaster, we mostly dealwith it promptly and effectively. Your useless chick-littleism is the most fruitless act of talk in history, the depressing ramblings of a fool who insists on war, perstilence, famine, and death out of sheer morbid hatred of everything of value in the world, of everything not controlled by a Central Party Agency of some sort, and of everything rational human beings might actually want.
In short, you shit on human freedom and the fact people don’t do what you like. You can’t stand that people want things you don’t, and like the impotent wanna-be-dictator you are, constantly demand more power over people’s actions.
Oh yeah, finally…
…in every friggin thread you make, you have the obnoxious habit of posting some long, rambling, hard-left source as if it were Holy Writ (it might be to you), then demanding other people actually write something substansive. You never respond to the meat of anyone’s post, instead quibbling over minor side issues or trivialities in roder to avoid actually talking with people.
Assbitch. ( 
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