How can the world's richest country have such awful places like Chicago, St. Louis, Gary, Baltimore, and Detroit? American might have the most wealth, sure, but there are billionaires and then there's everybody else. Most Americans are poor, and averages are very misleading. If you live in a cheaper country, you might think Americans make a lot of money. But America is very expensive, even in the shitty places, so your money doesn't go very far.
No healthcare unless you have a lot of money. Old and failing infrastructure. Roads with holes in them. Underfunded public education. Extremely high crime.
"But but but," interjects the liberal. "At least we have weed and gay marriage." As if that somehow makes things better. When your country sucks so much you have to get high to cope with it, that says a lot. And normalized degeneracy is an indication of a mental health crisis, brought on by "melting pot" anti-culturalism and stress in modern life.
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Anonymous2018-08-15 6:33
>> 1 In Germany most people are very poor too. Your employer has to pay only one euro / hour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept Try to compete with 1 euro / hour. Of course people die when they have only 1 euro / hour. So government takes care of the rest. They also have a system to keep people poor.
>>2 It's not a case of some other country being perfect. I'm just saying America has its problems. What you're doing is an example of whataboutism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
>>5 It's fine. But what I'm saying is that there are people in worse countries who think America must be perfect, but in reality, it has a TON of very serious problems. Some areas in America are worse than third world countries. Sure, there are some nice places too. But America is vastly different depending on where you are.
America is great if you're rich, but terrible if you're poor.
A genuinely good country should focus on lifting poor people out of poverty rather than only helping rich people get richer.
Modern liberal don't care about the free market. Then again, neither does the alt right. The only ``muh free market'' people are neocons, centrists, and libertarians. Both far right and far left are in favor of authoritarianism now. That includes more restrictions on things. None of this ``muh taxes'' conservatism except in isolated redneck areas. A lot of right-wing people care about social issues and migration now. In other words, identity politics. And there's really no room for free market garbage in identity politics.
If you're going by some antiquated definition of liberal, maybe you'd think they're free market. But guess what? Words change over time, and so do political climates. I'm American and I know what it's like here.
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Anonymous2018-08-16 7:35
Real Free Markets just haven't been tried!(except in zany anzap memeballs)