2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: America is a centrist, capitalist country. We are not and will never be socialist. [View all]VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)"And you, Sorority Girl, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, theres some things you should know. One of them is theres absolutely no evidence to support the statement that were the greatest country in the world. Were seventh in literacy. Twenty-seventh in math. Twenty-second in science. Forty-ninth in life expectancy. A hundred and seventy-eighth in infant mortality. Third in median household income. Number four in labor force and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies.
Now none of this is the fault of a twenty-year-old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst, period, generation, period, ever, period. So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I dunno what the fuck youre talkin about. Yosemite?" -- The Newsroom