Is America Great?

[el_bryanto]

12. Well ok - but "Great" is an adjective

In the context of "America is Great" or "Lets Make America Great again" - it's being used as an adjective. So in order to define it you are going to use other adjectives.

If you want to talk about what a "Great America" looks like I suppose that might include nouns. I guess my real question is do you want an understanding of what that phrase means or what "Great" means in that context? Or do you want to kind of work out your annoyance at that phrase?

Because it is very inexact and politicized (particularly in the context of the current campaign). It's become a bit of a rhetorical landmine - if you acknowledge America as great, than you can be seen on some level buying into the immigrant bashing, foreign policy belligerence of the Republicanoids. If you deny that America is great than you are accused of not loving or caring about America; of being out of touch.

Bryant