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Originally Posted by AngusJS
Why? Many other countries offer the same liberties that the US does...as well as universal health care, efficient mass transit systems, the cultural wealth gained from millenia of history, etc...all without legions of fundamentalists trying to ram their religion down your throat, idiotic policies such as capital punishment, etc...
Of course other countries have their problems as well - there are no utopias. But I don't see any reason why the US is just so much better than anywhere else in the industrialized West. The US is ok. Not horrible, not great.
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Perhaps a definition of what constitutes a "great" country is in order here, prior to handing out arbitrary grades.
For instance, I'm not religious at all and I haven't ran into any fundamentalists "ramming" their religion down my throat, as you seem to imply. That argument is an absurd invention of people who take issue with simply seeing religious symbals such as the cross in passing. Nothing is more ridiculous than the morons who are offended merely by a display of the Ten Commandments - not even the "idiotic policies such as capital punishment", as you put it.