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America has been falling in the polls of best places to live for many years. I believe the significant drop started during Bush 43.
Couple of reasons off the top of my head:
Infant mortality rate , for all the coin we have and medical ability, it is shockingly high for a first world nation.
Our diversity, while helping the USA when the immigrants are educated, motivated and desirous of improving their lives,often becomes the sad fact that many who come here do not contribute enough to carry their own weight in this country. This drags us down. We would be better off, for example,if visa holders came into the US to work for a time, and the returned to their country with their new found skill-set. Start companies and contribute to the improvement of their native country..help raise the living standards and quality of life for their fellow countrymen. This is how one improves the lot in life of their brethren.
The reputation of going around the world, starting military action without just cause. Bush 43 and the Iraq war and the WMD story (face it, the average Master degree chemist can create WMD if they deal with such ingredients) made our government officials look like war hawks who were only interested in pleasing those who they are beholden to, via looking for any reason to start a war to fill the coffers of those who have the "real power" , the globalists, who use the US military for their own means.
The quality of our public education and the high cost of universities....enough said.
We have the reputation of being desirous of controlling what is going on in other nation states, while not really cleaning up our own problems and weaknesses.
It is what it is....
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We've been going down for years and we will continue going down after Trump. Hilary wouldn't have stopped it.
Other countries are just becoming as good or better than America. That's just the facts.
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We've been going down for years and we will continue going down after Trump. Hilary wouldn't have stopped it.
Other countries are just becoming as good or better than America. That's just the facts.
True, because most first world countries attempt to help their own before they go running about giving away said "help"to everyone else on the planet. What does this do for the US? Well, a lot of those countries are now beholden to us, and while their pols(like our US pols ) are Ok with this arrangement, it does not force said countries to deal with their own issues.
Help yourself before you go about helping others....especially if the main motivation for doing so is control, at the expense of your own tax paying citizens.
More than 70 percent of survey respondents lost respect for U.S. leadership as a result of the toxic nature of the U.S. election, according to a poll conducted for the 2017 U.S. News Best Countries Rankings. That sentiment, combined with global distaste for Donald Trump, played a role in the U.S. falling from the No. 4 Best Country to No. 7.
To many people outside the U.S., the election of Donald Trump represents an unpredictable and dangerous move in U.S. foreign policy, says Jacob Parakilas with the British think tank Chatham House.
"Europeans look at Trump and see Berlusconi. South Americans look at Trump and see Hugo Chavez," he says. "And I think there's some truth to that, but obviously they had smaller countries with smaller economies and militaries in their command. Their potential impact was much smaller." U.S. Falls in U.S. News Best Countries Rankings
I believe the citizens of most other nations are 'vastly' more intelligent than American citizens,and I totally agree with this book~Idiot America:How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles P. Pierce
Pierce asks how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an American Idol contestant than a presidential candidate. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...6YW3HWK55XCGG2
Oh darn. I won't be able to sleep tonight worrying about this.
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