Mr. D. Goes to Washington: America Has Always Been Great!
New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo got into hot water for saying America was never that great. Was he kidding? It's always been great... for some.
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Regarding "Women have never been a minority in this country" I'm afraid that is not true. Early on Americans were male dominant because of the risks associated with trying to make a living in an unproved land. As time when on, men, more inclined to die young from war, dangerous occupations, drinking, etc. declined as a fraction of the population. This has been slow even though girls are more likely to survive birth and childhood.
Food for thought; and although I mostly agree in principle, I would add a caveat- I think America has been somewhat great in comparison to the world at the time, but is continually evolving and has gotten much better over time. Hopefully the nation will continue to evolve in the right way, even though it obviously won’t be a straight upward trend.
There are many ways in which I think America has been great in comparison to other countries. And in many ways that's all we can ask. But we also need to stand back and objectively assess the true greatness of the country in relation to the greatness of the country in comparison. And in that way, we come up short quite a bit. I think part of our problem is that we no longer understand how greatness is achieved. We understand it when buying a car or an ostrich coat — you have to pay to get greatness. And Americans no longer want to pay for anything.
Social progress, IMHO. I don't fault our founding fathers the way they started the country. From where the came (Europe), white-male domination was the norm, and they were fighting to change another social woe: monarchy. America is "great" because we're changing for the better ... amendments, voting rights, etc. Yes, it's taken a long time. But compared to European feudalism, we've come a long way, baby! Evolutionary progress in our society ... it's fascinating. Let's hope Trump and his ilk don't de-evolve it.
Raised and indoctrinated with "patriotism" fervor, that chimpanzee instinct of "us vs. others," "in-group vs. out-group," for years I thought that the USA was great, the best country on earth. :: cough :: After years of living and working in other countries, I am appalled to realize how gullible and naïve I was. I am no fan of corporate Cuomo, but I agree with his statement that America has never been that great. Even now, we rank 18th on the Prosperity Index; again 18th on the World Happiness Report; in healthcare we have the highest costs and worst outcomes among all industrialized nations; and we have the highest GINI coefficient for income inequality among those countries. What do we rank No. 1 in? Number of firearms and gun-related deaths per capita, percentage of our population in prison, the size of our military budget, the number of billionaires —while 18.5 million are living in "extreme poverty," according to the U.N. We should feel embarrassed and ashamed, not "proud." We've got a l-o-n-g way to go before we could even approximate a modicum of "greatness."
Well, now I feel like watching the first episode of The Newsroom again. Well said!
Well said.
Agree! Thank you for the context of Cuo
Definitely agree - since I'm one of the 51%, I suppose that is only to be expected.
Voting is great; representation, however, seems to be limited to those who donate. The bigger the donation, the bigger the representation.