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What has Damaged America the Most?

What has Damaged America the Most?


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Who gives a **** about the Euro-trash, Chaotic Africa, the Hellscape of the Middle East, Asia or Latin America? The only nation that had a rival in military strength is dead and buried. I fully support Fortress America, **** THE REST OF THE ****ING WORLD! The only thing we have to do with other countries is trade. Just like Jefferson said we should do. The neocon scumbags wanna police the rest of the damn world in their failed Woodrow Wilson experiments maybe the ****stains should do it on their own dime. They should take their ****stain families too.
Could you give some examples of past events that would draw/have drawn your ire, based on the framework you allude too in this post?
 
Government Corruption.

I believe this is the root of most of our problems. When our officials put self gain before the country and allow lobbyists to influence their decisions, little good can happen.
 
Everyone says special interests but almost everyone will excuse their favorite special interest.
Until we can all agree, that no special interests should be involved, there will always be a lot of them influencing legislation.
 
Who gives a **** about the Euro-trash, Chaotic Africa, the Hellscape of the Middle East, Asia or Latin America? The only nation that had a rival in military strength is dead and buried. I fully support Fortress America, **** THE REST OF THE ****ING WORLD! The only thing we have to do with other countries is trade. Just like Jefferson said we should do. The neocon scumbags wanna police the rest of the damm world in their failed Woodrow Wilson experiments maybe the ****stains should do it on their own dime. They should take their ****stain families too.

Yes because isolationists policies would have made America the same country. Do you know where the overwhelming majority of the country's money has come from for the past 200+ years? I'll give you a clue, it's come as a result of getting involved in the problems of other people. Think of it this way, if there weren't dozens of treaties, acts, agreements and political deals going on, you wouldn't have a job today. But thank you for that highly informative post. It simply highlights why Libertarians will never get past being a conglomerate of disgruntled Best Buy employees and 17 year olds.
 
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Everyone says special interests but almost everyone will excuse their favorite special interest.
Until we can all agree, that no special interests should be involved, there will always be a lot of them influencing legislation.

I would be all for the total removal of them.
 
The Federal Reserve System

It's the root cause of all of the problems we are facing. War, inflation, corruption etc etc. When a private entity has the power to print money out of nothing and load it to the government at interest.....**** rolls downhill.

Follow the money.
 
Yes because isolationists policies would have made America the same country.

Just like alot of the neocon idiots here you confuse noninterventionist with isolationist. Try reading up on the subject and then try again

Do you know where the overwhelming majority of the country's money has come from for the past 200+ years? I'll give you a clue, it's come as a result of getting involved in the problems of other people.

Funny how you were just as anti-war as I was back when Bush was in charge and now youve changed now that your moron in chief is the one doing the kiling.

It simply highlights why Libertarians will never get past being a conglomerate of disgruntled Best Buy employees and 17 year olds.

As usual you know nothing about the philosophy
 
The basis for all that is wrong is the addiction to power and the money which supports the addiction.
 
Just like alot of the neocon idiots here you confuse noninterventionist with isolationist. Try reading up on the subject and then try again

Who gives a **** about the Euro-trash, Chaotic Africa, the Hellscape of the Middle East, Asia or Latin America?

You either don't know what isolationism means or you don't know what non-interventionism means. Which is it?

Funny how you were just as anti-war as I was back when Bush was in charge and now youve changed now that your moron in chief is the one doing the kiling.

What does the ISOLATIONIST POLICY you're arguing for have to do with being ANTI-WAR? Here I'll give you a clue: Nothing.

As usual you know nothing about the philosophy

Which philosophy? One which argues with one liners and quotes from people who were just as interventionist as those they were rallying against?

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You either don't know what isolationism means or you don't know what non-interventionism means. Which is it?



What does the ISOLATIONIST POLICY you're arguing for have to do with being ANTI-WAR? Here I'll give you a clue: Nothing.



Which philosophy? One which argues with one liners and quotes from people who were just as interventionist as those they were rallying against?

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love that 24 libertarians thing lol.
 
so we need to have those coalition governments we see in lots of europe made up of a loose alliance of 3-5 parties?

I dont know if we are like that. They tell me America pretty much is the same no matter where you go its alike in most customs and the buildings and even the governments are all close in operation...I dont think it would be like europe where you have so many different ethnic and multi-nationals living together. I think TurtleDude - It just may be a good thing here to have all that competition in the political class. I bet it would work to a large degree here. Everyone says its a good thing in the Business class what with free trade and all ( we hear about its success all the time- from government). Having more Competion to win the Prize of governing us for a while? Yeh I want it .
 
Federal Reserve and the wars.
 
Progressives and socialists and their socialism has harmed America.

they have created an addiction that has sapped the strength of america. welfare socialism is an opiate of the masses and the dems have created generations of addicts who have no ambition but fail to achieve because we make it easy to be a failure in america
 
As we all know America isnt doing so well as of late. So Im curous what you folks think has done the most damage.

Political Correctness. There are too many laws being passed that regulates what people can/can't do. All in the name of PC and "health". This is not how America was designed to be. It is the Government that is suppose to be limited. NOT the people.
 
Democrats, Republicans, lawyers and corporations.
 
I voted Federal Reserve, party spin-doctors, 2-party system, coporate elite, and government corruption. All play their role well.
 
Populism. American culture has been infected with a growing anti-intellectualism, disdain for academics steming from the Populist period onward. The cult of the Common Man and mass participation has lead to "too much democracy" and too much politics. Politics has been dumbed down and further declined into a popularity log-rolling contest.

Public assistance programmes aren't really that bad. The United States has a very weak welfare system, so people don't actually have it that easy when they fail. Other countries with far greater, more generous programmes actually have greater income mobility from the poor to the middle classes.

Depends on how you design the system.
 
Populism. American culture has been infected with a growing anti-intellectualism, disdain for academics steming from the Populist period onward. The cult of the Common Man and mass participation has lead to "too much democracy" and too much politics. Politics has been dumbed down and further declined into a popularity log-rolling contest.

Public assistance programmes aren't really that bad. The United States has a very weak welfare system, so people don't actually have it that easy when they fail. Other countries with far greater, more generous programmes actually have greater income mobility from the poor to the middle classes.

Depends on how you design the system.
I don't agree with all of that but it was well reasoned-hence the thanks
 
Edit: I should amend a my statement.

There are a few other problems.

1. Politics has become less serious. It's more of a game now. We even call them "races," where people huddle down into "teams" against one another, voting for candidates because he's part of the tribe, not really because of what he proposes. We have so much politics, it's all been trivalized into another sport.

2. "political saturation." The United States seems to be in a permanent election cycle. There is practically no down time to think and reflect. One race ends, another begins. It's gotten to absurd, that right after the last Presidential Election, people were planning and talking about the next election.

Peope are therefore bombarded non-stop with political messages, media advertisements, and opportunities to participate on so many levels (local, state, federal etc). Combined with the dead-lock system we have, where nothing ever seems to get accomplished, I think it produces feelings of apathy and sensory overstimulation. Who really has the time to analyze all the issues in all this mass politics? And who actually has the skills or wants to do it? Debates are almost useless, television focuses on sound bites, because people have 5 second attenton spans, and politicians can say almost anything, because 90% of the electorate has no expertise in any of the topics they're talking about. It's sad and pointless.

I hate voting. I hate politics. I only rarely go out, and even then, I am only choosing between a **** sandwich and a crap bagel.


And thanks ;)
 
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