Originally Posted by
olddude
I don't often disagree with you but I do on this one. Negativity and dissing of our country is a relatively resent thing by the real citizens of America. We have the First President who's first task as President was an apology tour. and who declared America as just another also ran no better then his home country as he bowed to the royals of Arabia. I could go on and on but I won't, just suffice it to say we are a different America then we were 50 years ago. mcw
No, I think we are the same America we were 50 years ago. All of the "sins" of today existed back then as well, heck all the way back to the founding of this country. The major difference is with the internet and 24 hour news nothing is off limits and everything gets told one way or the other. 50-100 years a it was easy to cover things up by asking the papers not to print it in the news. People make a huge deal about a black president these days but even now a cripple like FDR would NEVER get to be president let alone get 4 terms. Wars for economic gain of the few date back well before the banana republics we invaded, taking over the Philipines in a war with Spain that was caused by the sinking on the battleship Maine in Cuba (blamed on Spain but was proven to be a ship design flaw).
We would be much better off looking deeper into what makes this country work and what needs fixed then sticking our heads in the sand and yelling were #1 in everything when its not true.
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