America's Greatness: An Immune System

We won't make America great again. America was never that great.

-NY Governor

America is great. But why is it great?

America differs from other countries in that it is always moving towards the just, the true, the right.

Other countries had to be forced or pressured into doing the right thing. America has always been able to do so on it's own. No matter what wrong we have done, we, and we alone, have recognized it, attacked it, and corrected it.

It's like America has a built in immune system. Women's rights, racism, bigotry, corruption, equality, child welfare, world policing, have all been corrected by us. Sometimes with great turmoil, but we found the way to a more just society. We are great because we have a great system, baked into our country's DNA.

America's greatness is why the poor, the oppressed, the downtrodden, flock to us. This is why Hawaii, and Korea, Panama, Germany, Laos, and Japan are free and prosperous. A lesser country would have just swallowed them up after defeat.


Show me another country with a self-healing immune system.

The governor of NY is a blazing idiot. Some have called for his removal, but I say no, let him stay. He is who New Yorkers deserve.

What and when was this 'great America' Trump wants to return to?  

What and when was this 'great America' Trump wants to return to?

Idk, going back to Reagan seems like it'd be pretty dope. But, i think the phrase itself is more of a reference to Obama and his foreign policy. Alot of his campaigning had to do with reasserting American dominance 

Cuomos speech was him appealing to progressives and Socialists. Who all predominantly hold the opinion America was never great, because like Cuomo in his speech, they compare it to something non-existent and highly implausible. 

Yes, America will truly be great when all women are given 100% respect all the time, and everyone is "engaged"(whatever that meant).... and well if we're just making an unrealistic wish list, American will truly be great when everyone has a jacuzzi, a Bougati Veyron, and acts without sin. Oh and crime is zero, and pigs can fly. That's greatness 😰😂

When America took in the Poles, Italians, Jews, and Vietnamese and turned them into giants,

 I think it is useful to do so because it helps us think what our aspirations should be.

So you'd like an America that doesn't build walls to keep people out nor blocks immigration on the basis of religion?

  i agree America was greater in its idealistic past - but is it those days that Trump wants to return to?

What is a 'great' country'?

I don't think any country has ever been 'great'.

Many countries have been and are worse than the US - but does being better than Chad or Chile make a country 'great'?

Other countries had to be forced or pressured into doing the right thing. America has always been able to do so on it's own. No matter what wrong we have done, we, and we alone, have recognized it, attacked it, and corrected it.

America's history of regime change and foreign electoral interventions say otherwise.

We've supported dictatorships and authoritarian governments when it fits our interests, such as Saudi Arabia and many Latin American regimes, 

but invade their countries when they don't.

Our military ventures into Iraq have resulted in 1 million dead Iraqis, for instance.

It's quite rare for the US to apologize for its misdoings overseas, of which there are very many.

America deserves credit where it's due, but this chauvinist ideology will not get America anywhere close to being "great".

but invade their countries when they don't.

That is what our military is for. When diplomacy fails.

"road to hell is paved with good intentions"

Would not like to live in a world where most of humanity only 'bad intentions', would you?

What were the intentions of humans that came to land of the free and chased away, or killed so many native indian's, and proceeded to place the surviving native indians on reservations in some of poorest agriculture land.

The first Spanish colonies, in the land of the free, occurred 125 years before the British and they had indian and black slaves, but believed those peoples have souls ergo allowed those slaves to buy their freedom and the Spanish priests performed marriages for all peoples of any color.

The initial British arriving in the land of the free, were quite the opposite i.e. a much more inhumane set of people. 

In the words of Senator McCains daughter, America is already great, and does not need to be made 'great again'.

Thank you Megan, that will be all idio-ump{ humpty-dumpty }

Plus it often falls prey to the, "road to hell is paved with good intentions"

The genius reposted to bold!

Ahh shucks, dont make me blush.

Thanks for your kind words, even if they were not intentional.

Make USA greater by moving it towards all inclusive, one-world, spaceship Earth nation.

To divide and conquer is what humans have practiced for many years.

Global awareness has also been known for many years now.

Humanity has not passed its final examination as globally integrated { unified } society.

If not all-for-one and one-for-all,  --see fat <> middle class--  then humanity will fail its existence on Earth.

We came close to that in 70's and 80's but humanity choose mind forward over butt forward evolution.

Humanity will need to do that many more times in other circumstances to survive another 500 - 1000 years.

Even if humanity unifies, there is not gurrantee of their ability to solve the self-induced ecological problems coming or natural ecological circumstances that will occur sooner or later.

Women's rights, racism, bigotry, corruption, equality, child welfare, world policing, have all been corrected by us

First of all, you claim to live in Ghana, is that also a lie?

Also? Lol. Yeah, cause a claim of living in Ghana is a social booster.

No one cares about your alleged travels

Except the people who ask, and people like you who have never traveled.

you have yet to put a single source for your usual over the top claims.

Plenty of hot air, though.

... living in Ghana is a social booster.

you who have never traveled

"over the top" claim?

you've never been in an airplane

I have, extensively, probably far more than you. 

Lol. Yeah, that's not over the top.

Remember those hilarious claims?

I remember your poor reading comp and pettiness making you claim I made them.

I can fly an airplane, I used to work at the airport while in high school and traded my pay for flight training.

 I have a trophy for a flour bombing contest.

Or, can we go back to the OP....

The two of you are so cute dancing together.