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No DUplicitous DUpe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:06 PM Original message |
What Kind Of A Nation Has The U.S. Become? |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. Mean, selfish and stupid. nt |
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yella_dawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. You forgot materialistic and self centered. |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. add vulgar. |
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Blue Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. Money grubbing, short-sighted, complacent |
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Steely_Dan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
4. Couldn't Agree More....n/t |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
5. The Corrupt Corporate States of America |
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OZark Dem (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
6. It would not take a rocket scientist to figure it out |
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No DUplicitous DUpe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:30 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Thank you for that excellent comment.... |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:57 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. If i might rephrase your question: |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
8. Do you mean is was better during slavery, the civil rights era, Vietnam, the depression? |
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Zenlitened (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:29 PM Response to Reply #8 |
31. Clumsy, as usual. - n/t |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
10. An empire. |
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Newest Reality (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
11. One can also ask ... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
12. It's a typical empire |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:47 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Great post! nt |
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edhopper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
13. It's become |
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movonne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 03:14 PM Response to Reply #13 |
40. You hit the nail on the head....this is exactly what they want....get rid |
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wiggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
14. article about quality of life in different countries. It has to do |
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Bloofer_Lady (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
16. US fought the revolution so that greedy businessmen wouldn't have to pay taxes |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-20-10 12:14 PM Response to Reply #16 |
44. Welcome to DU! |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
17. America has become a docile, subservient nation |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
19. What do you see as the mechanisms that can change this? |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. I personally think it's too late |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
21. Fascist. |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
22. We are imperial terrorsts! |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
23. A country where a young black man can be elected President |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:20 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Many countries have black men as heads of state |
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taught_me_patience (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:41 PM Response to Reply #27 |
36. Not in the western world |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:46 PM Response to Reply #27 |
37. Oh yeah, you're right. Zimbabwe beat us to it. (nt) |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:26 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. Oh come on, let there be a pure complain thread.. |
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piratefish08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
24. a nation-building oligarchy. |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
25. Somehow these two items seem to go together... |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
26. A little less certain in its own manifest destiny, perhaps, a bit less naive and comfortable. |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:21 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Put simply: a nation in decline /nt |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 03:06 PM Response to Reply #28 |
38. Maybe a little more worldly. Maybe less of a threat. Maybe. Could go the other way: |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
30. An Imperial society losing it's empire. A consumer economy without consumers. |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
32. K&R |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
33. Unfortunately, a 21st Century fascist empire in decline and on a losing |
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taught_me_patience (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
34. I'm still proud of America. We are a diverse nation |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
35. Three million homeless people, 1.65 million school children with no home to return to after school. |
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rock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
39. A poor one n/t |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
41. Greedy and Ignorant. I want my pre-Reagan country back!!!!1111 n/t |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
42. I'm not certain, but I do think we should change our national symbol from an eagle to a tick... |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
43. The kind it has always been - |
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