Mr. Cuomo, Here is why America is great

America is pretty good.

We do a lot of good in the world.

We do a lot of bad.

If we want to live up to our own marketing,There is plenty of room for improvement.

There was a technology explosion that happened here. Because the conditions of freedom permitted it. Technology moved at a snail’s pace until we gave it a kick in the ass. Current high technology societies such as the Japanese were still slaying each other with samurai swords while Henry Ford was rolling mass produced Model T’s.

uh huh…okay. If you say so. :grinning:

Oh be still my beatingnhearts, please let Democrats be stupid enough to fall into the trap of running on just why America has always sucked. Pretty please, with sugar on top. Amen

No one is saying America sucks but you cant start a thread in politics with the intention of a love fest. This is a forum for debate and discussion so all opinions end up being aired.

Ok here is my answer. I will give it then I’m done with it. It was an affective campaign slogan. Campaign slogans are designed to get votes. It worked. But we were on a downward slide toward socialism before Trump. ISIS was still on a murder spree. Oppressive government regs were stifling economic growth. So we needed to restore some of our values. The campaign slogan helped him win which is the only function of a campaign slogan. To get people fired up. You have my opinion. We have more important issues than slogans.

Try using his full quote and address that instead of being lazy and dishonest

Geography…

Oh come on now Obama got elected twice and I still think America is great even with that disaster! :us: :smirk:

They come by land, sea and air!

Cuomo is a twit.

His comment was stupid.

America is great.

Always has been.

Doesn’t need to be made great, again.

And Trump is still a ■■■■■■ canoe.

Of course it is a love fest. Why shouldn’t it be. The world loves America. And they demonstrate it by their endless attempts to get here. They risk rape, robbery and murder to make it to our borders. They pay their life savings to coyotes for a chance at the U.S. Many die in the desert trying to get here. If you are a woman, you will probably be raped. If you are an attractive woman you will probably be raped several times. Yet they still come. Once here, they are desperate to stay. Doing anything and everything to remain in this country. It’s a lovefest of America! :us:

What has our recent response been to those that you have just described?

To be fair, the people you are describing here would be just as eager to get into any number of other developed countries if they could.

You posted this in politics on a debate forum. What did you expect? Of course both sides are going to be talked about.

And people emigrate to countries other than the US. I am not denying that the US is not a top destination but plenty of countries in Europe are attractive to people from all over the world.

Overall I think America is a great place, for all its faults it tries to do the right thing but that image has been tarnished in recent years. Like it or not people love and hate the US equally.

Geography doesn’t explain it.

How many countries are in the western hemisphere? 20ish? Why do they bypass countries closer to them and proceed to the U.S? Our greatness attracts them, or they would choose another county. We also have many, many, many from India, the middle east and Asia. Those people had 195 countries to choose from. And the chose us. Why?

Really?! Tell that to the hordes from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua who didn’t stop in Mexico or didn’t even make a right turn to Belize!

Denmark
Sweden
Germany
Australia
Canada
Belgium
Finland
Japan
New Zealand
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Iceland
Austria
Switzerland
Norway
Spain
Ireland

All the metrics are here:

I’d like to see America get back to this type of greatness:

Three and a half years of World War II, starting with the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor December '41, ending in June '45, in that three and a half year period, this country built

22 aircraft carriers,
8 battleships,
48 cruisers,
349 destroyers,
420 destroyer escorts,
203 submarines,
34 million tons of merchant ships,
100,000 fighter aircraft,
98,000 bombers,
24,000 transport aircraft.
93,000 tanks,
257,000 artillery pieces,
105,000 mortars.
3 million machine guns,
2 1/2 million military trucks.

We put 16 million men in uniform, various Armed Services, all over the world, Africa, Sicily, Italy.

We won the battle in the Atlantic.

We won in the Pacific.

WE WON THE WAR and literally saved Europe for the liberals to love so much!

Considering our new mantra is supposedly “America First”, the ■■■■■■ job we did with helping our fellow American citizens in Puerto Rico recently doesn’t bode well for those in need of aid elsewhere.