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We need to travel the world and live without the daily american lifestyle before we can truly appreciate it. And only after that can you make a realistic criticism about the US.



So you are saying that because many americans are still better off than their foreign counterparts in many parts of the world, that we should ignore bad governing?

That argument doesnt seem to hold water to me.

Does not the USoA Gov't ostensibly exist by, for and of the people? If politicians, and career beauracrats start infringing on our rights, freedoms, and even priveladges that we cherish, whos job is it to correct those errors and put the Gov't back on track?

It would seem to me that instead of saying "oh, well it could be worse" and blindly following the words of the Powers That Be, that we as the people actually have a moral obligation to take an active part in the political discourse
of this nation.