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Old 02-17-2018, 08:07 PM
 
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You live in a country where our financial assets per capita is 40% higher than the next closest country while having some of the lowest cost of living in the developed world. You live in the world's lone super power. Where no country in their right mind would attack your homeland. Where people born into abject poverty can become filthy rich so long as they become the best at what they do or have the best ideas in our meritocratic system. A country who's pro innovation free market system has invented every major modern technology. Where you have civil liberties enshrined in your constitution that nearly no other country has. Why does this system need to be completely upended as you say? Are you not aware of the fact that basically everyone in the world would die for citizenship here? That having children here has become an entire tourist industry? Don't we need to sometimes take a step back a appreciate what we have?
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Old 02-17-2018, 09:16 PM
 
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You live in a country where our financial assets per capita is 40% higher than the next closest country while having some of the lowest cost of living in the developed world. You live in the world's lone super power. Where no country in their right mind would attack your homeland. Where people born into abject poverty can become filthy rich so long as they become the best at what they do or have the best ideas in our meritocratic system. A country who's pro innovation free market system has invented every major modern technology. Where you have civil liberties enshrined in your constitution that nearly no other country has. Why does this system need to be completely upended as you say? Are you not aware of the fact that basically everyone in the world would die for citizenship here? That having children here has become an entire tourist industry? Don't we need to sometimes take a step back a appreciate what we have?
Our government is bought and paid for because of their own needs to be reelected.
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Old 02-17-2018, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Gaston, South Carolina
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So the conservative OP thinks he can speak for how those on the opposite end of the political spectrum feel? Tell me, OP, how can you do that? And if a liberal member of C-D did the same off your side, you, of course, would have no problem with it, right?
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Old 02-17-2018, 09:28 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Other westernized democracies have citizens who might like to live here for a little while, that is until they need to go to the hospital for something, and then they are on the next plane home.
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Old 02-17-2018, 09:38 PM
 
Location: USA
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Typical Liberal-Democrats always claim its better somewhere else. Nothing new, they used to take trips to the Soviet Union and Cuba, because those countries were so much better than the US.
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Old 02-17-2018, 09:41 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Typical Liberal-Democrats always claim its better somewhere else. Nothing new.
Who are you to stereotype a group of people? Nobody said that. Again, your misinformation campaign is failing.
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Old 02-18-2018, 12:14 AM
 
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Typical Liberal-Democrats always claim its better somewhere else. Nothing new, they used to take trips to the Soviet Union and Cuba, because those countries were so much better than the US.
If you guys think it’s so great here, why do you constantly push for wars and invasions of other nations instead of taking care of home first and minding our business?
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Old 02-18-2018, 12:46 AM
 
Location: Pacific Beach/San Diego
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I love living in the United States. My culture is here, and I am 100% an American - - would never choose living in any place over being in the US. At the same time, conservative Republicans are 100% douchebags and their politics and culture absolutely do not represent me. Fock the Conservative Coonts - - they don't represent me or my America.
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Old 02-18-2018, 01:01 AM
 
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Other westernized democracies have citizens who might like to live here for a little while, that is until they need to go to the hospital for something, and then they are on the next plane home.
That’s because you need to pay for a service instead of demanding other people pay for that service.
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Old 02-18-2018, 01:10 AM
 
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If you guys think it’s so great here, why do you constantly push for wars and invasions of other nations instead of taking care of home first and minding our business?
Bush being the exception, Democrats are the ones doing all the wars/invasions/insurgencies.
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