America was not great.

[Nevilledog]

[spooky3]

1. Remember how they trashed Michelle Obama for

stating something nuanced and correct about this?

[groundloop]

2. YES - and it's obvious that in their feeble little minds it was a black man in the White House.....

that caused America to not be great.

Sadly, I'm beginning to get the feeling that our 'greatness' has run its' course and is in an irreversible decline. Our presidential election was rigged, through the electoral college, to favor slave states. That relic lives on and likely won't be changed anytime soon.

Our financial infrastructure is rigged in favor of the rich, normal working Americans are stuck in a system where they can't get ahead. Oh, sure, every once in a while we hear a rags to riches story, but more often than not people who are wealthy started out with a huge helping hand from their rich parents.

I MIGHT feel better about things if we take the Senate as well as the White House in November and immediately pass progressive healthcare and wage legislation. We'll see.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. It's a myth.

Mostly based on the good fortunes that would occur for almost anyone who has seized a vast amount of new land with lots of resources.

Not to mention avoiding vast damage to infrastructure like what happened to most of the other industrialized world during WW2.

Edit: Yet several religious people attributed the good fortune to "God's favor" with the policies of this country. When the inevitable dampening happened, the scapegoats were the people who supposedly upset God with their "liberal" ideas.