Unpacking Patriotism and Political Division in the U.S.

[@rebeccagray2443]

America has always been great. Meghan McCain said such at her esteemed Father’s funeral.❤

[@laurellussen3512]

All of the countries feel that they represent important ideas. This sample of "great intersection" is the least possible invovlement for citizens . So much work to be done. Being American is soon going to mean being willfully wasteful to our own extinction. And the polarization? That's a bill of goods brought to you by corporations worried that their tax loopholes could get shut down. The very wealthy may employ you, but should they deserve to capture you toward ideals that have outlived their usefulness.

[@truthseeker9454]

Would you care to provide an example of an American ideal that has outlived its usefulness?

[@John-b8j]

I used to admire the US deep down and wanted to go there until people on Reddit crushed my dream

[@TheLonet]

Liberty is what Trump want to take from all of you Americans. But I’m truly curious for you to give me just an example of a country that is just “a piece of land with borders”. Just one, if you may.

[@nyhchal5393]

You have lost your mind,

[@TheLonet]

@@nyhchal5393😂😂😂😂😂

[@bigboy9693]

Drunk the koolaid propaganda from the party of the Klan.

[@markstoaks61]

A-men!

[@ronaldlindeman6136]

Sometimes it is not the ideal that we should look at, but the reality. The United States has the highest prison population percentage in the world, over 700 in prison per 100,000 people vs Europe and Japan with 80 to 150 people in prison per 100,000 people. The United States has very high crime rates. The United States has high rates of death by bullets from guns. There is a lot that the United States does well, but some of the reality of the United States, the US doesn't always do so well.

[@truthseeker9454]

One thought, and one question: Thought - Failure to perfectly live up to an ideal is not sufficient reason to discard the ideal. It could also be a reason to make greater efforts toward realizing the goal. Athletes don't all stop training when they lose a race. Some train harder. Question - World Population Review statistics report 37,040 Americans died from gun violence in 2019. The same source reports that in 2020, 930,130 Americans died from a deliberate medical procedure while trying to cross the border of the birth canal -- a journey they had no choice in beginning. The government wants to deprive law abiding citizens of their constitutional right to bear arms, and invent a right to murder babies. That's the reality. In your opinion does that represent progress as a nation?

[@ronaldlindeman6136]

@@truthseeker9454 What if someone needs someone else to donate a kidney to them, or they will die. Many people have been tested on whether they can donate a kidney successfully, but only one person is able to donate successfully. They ask that person, "do you want to donate your kidney." The person says no. Then they go ahead with the operation anyway, holding person down with ropes. The person who they are taking out the kidney is screaming, no I don't want the operation to take out my kidney and that person then gets told, it doesn't matter what you think, we will use your body as we decide.

[@truthseeker9454]

@@ronaldlindeman6136 You not only did not answer my question, you asked another one that has nothing to do with the subject as far as I can see. I know the situation you described happens in Russia, but I have not heard of such a thing in the US.

[@artificialanimeuniverse5063]

Good for you!

[@RV4aviator]

United we stand , divided we fall. God bless the America of old. What it is now in some Dem States is a disgrace..!

[@musoangelo]

Sorry rv, it's the gop that destroyed these ideals. Read project 2025 and tell me that our 250 year experiment in representative democracy is wrong.

[@schrodinger6991]

The pledge of alligiance is so absuardly cult like, the way you force children to say it is absolutly mind boggeling to an outsider.

[@artificialanimeuniverse5063]

0:25 NGL USA of back than was a nice place!

[@eugenewalton7336]

Still is.

[@HarryShagnasty-sc9zd]

Hahaha you are so deluded

[@nyhchal5393]

Leave.......

[@TheLonet]

@@nyhchal5393you’re a truly trumpist. Nobody else ate entitled to their opinions. Only your’s must be accepted. How funny! 😂😂😂😂

[@TheTimbo911]

"Other countries are just land masses" This is the kind of fool that those land masses laugh at. The level of ego is out of this world. This asshat has probably never been anywhere else. You are correct sir...delusion.

[@rdperrin5854]

you're welcome to leave anytime and go live in some sh-t hole.