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Originally Posted by surftheiop
gtfo with this complaint unless you want another 4 years of Trump. There are at least plausible arguments to support it (like GDP) and we are never going to win the presidency running on a platform of being a overall ****ty country. If we want things like universal healthcare in USA need to come from the angle of being the GOAT overall country, so we should have a better health system than everyone else.
If to support universal healthcare Americans have to believe their country's the greatest nation ever, maybe it's better they don't get it. The ROW has got pretty sick of hearing US politicians and celebs beating the drum about being the greatest nation on earth etc. when we see multiple shoot ups every year, institutionalised racism and casual invasions of other countries for non-benevolent reasons.
The challenge of the left should be to convince Americans that they're part of a global community in which no country is "better" than the others, and to dissuade jingoism and drum-beating.
You could start by getting rid of the stupidity of playing the national anthem every day at school,.