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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by KnowYourObama, TMV and topsy_top20k, topsy_top20k_en. topsy_top20k_en said: Have Americans given up on America?: A poll and roundup HERE. http://bit.ly/78AVPD [...]
It isn't giving up on America to acknowlege the sad fact that we are in hock up to our eyeballs to China, or that Wallstreet sold us down river: both from the standpoint of the financial crisis and from the standpoint of priviledging companies that outsource jobs to other countries, even when the financial benefits are negligible. I haven't given up on my country.
I haven't given up on my country, but I've given up on a lot of clueless and/or corrupt politicians and a lot of clueless and/or ignorant fellow citizens. As for China, nobody forced the corporations to relocate out of the US, they did that out of greed. And who forces anyone here to buy everything from China? Let's face it, everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too. Now that philosophy is coming back to bite us. . . most of us anyway. The other 10% are just peachy thanks, so where's the problem? I blame Al Gore.
I haven't given up, but I'm moving out in a week.
Why should anyone care about a country where leadership is willing to sell citizenship for a few dollars and is willing to let every immigrant in whether they follow the rules are not.
Why should anyone care about a country where leadership is so obivously distrustful of virtually every government institution and are unwilling to expose their own families to the heavy hand of the government.
When leadership starts acting like the U.S. is something worth maintaining, then others will start to care.
superdestroyer,
I think hell has just frozen over…
Americans are legends in their own minds shopping for realestate on the ash heap of history unless……
….the republican party can be destroyed.
Wish granted. Now what?
God forbid either one is destroyed. We could wind up with a socialist or a fascist state. Seriously, they do keep each other off balance. Careful what you wish for FT.
How 'bout we just mangle them a little, then?
You're encouraging him. Don't you remember that he is a socialist?
Whoops.
The Blue dogs split from the democratic party and create their own party. We end up with two parties, a center-left party ( the Democrats) and a center-right party (the Blue-Dogs) instead of what we have now a center-right party and a far far far right party.
If you're standing near the end of the board, most everyone else seems to be on one side. From where I'm standing, it looks like a somewhat more leftish corporatist party and a somewhat more rightish corporatist party. Well, except that neither ever takes away what the other gained.