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Did YOU know, that conservatives in other countries are much like your liberals? "Conservative" doesn't really translate when it comes to other countries.
Our Conservative government is like your left, and our Uber-Liberals would make you pee blood.
Nice try, though.
How are your uber liberals different from our uber liberals?
Why shouldn't we make the top 10 list is the more relevant issue. And the answer is, we should be there. We aren't. Not because of bad data, but because our form of capitalism/government/society isnt making us happy.
Yet we don't seem to want to off ourselves as much as the people in those "happy" nations.
If Mexico is scoring higher on "life satisfaction" why do so many Mexicans continue to flood our borders?
Money and of course, the American Dream is still be spread even though that idea is dead or at least in a coma. Money is a powerful draw. If you hear that in ____ Country, you could make x 10 what you make, and have nicer things, you'd get sucked into that. Especially if you were not aware of all the other issues we are facing as a society in this country.
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Originally Posted by weltschmerz
Why should Americans be the happiest in the entire world?
Because we are modeled and marketed as the best. Democracy is better than your government is what we are told. You should do what we do right? Isn't that what we've been selling for 200 years? The American Dream? Freedom? We are supposed to be better than everyone else, so if that were true, we'd be the happiest. But we are not.
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Originally Posted by Taratova
Obama is the great divider of this country.. it is the us against them mentality he has given the people.
Times are bad now economically and Obama just gives the people his political finger pointing speeches . I have yet to hear him bring the people together. Obama is no leader. He is the great divider. Obama has set the tone and it is not inspiring at all. It is a miserable message of all that is wrong and no positives or working together with this president. It is his way or the highway. His cabinet and his party follow him in his tone as well.
If you think this is all on Obama, then you are just like the rest of the sheeple in this country. Caught up in a bipartisan con game designed to keep us fighting amongst ourselves as they figure out new ways to chip away our liberties. Our government does not care about you. Get this Democrat / Republican crap out of your head. Bush was as bad as Obama. I can assure you that Obama's predecessor will be as bad or worse. The political party does not matter. You are not in the 1%, so neither party cares about you or me.
The Democrats are not even to the left of the conservative parties in most other first world nations... calling them socialist is ridiculous. Stop watching Fox News and read a book... even the wikipedia entries on political ideologies will do. And read them a few times to be sure you understand.
So this constant talk about income inequality is not not left-wing?
Calling them socialist is not ridiculous because many of them call themselves so and think that communism works.
So this constant talk about income inequality is not not left-wing?
Calling them socialist is not ridiculous because many of them call themselves so and think that communism works.
I think they've taken to calling themselves socialist because so many on the right do so. It still doesn't make them socialists.
Telling them that socialism means the state controlling the means of production would probably cause most (not all) of them to go "thats not what I support".
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