Bill Gates?
Are you frakking kidding me!
As an American seeing topics like this I am caught between a rock and a hard place. I'm not the ideal patriot but I do Love my family and they are Americans so instead of saying America is good or bad I'll say America and Americans are a group of people with many different backgrounds and culture.
America isn't such a bad place, it has many things that many countries do not. To be honest I think its star achievement though at times corrupt is its Judicial system. I mean sure crooks get off at times but this is the only country I know of where a man can find a good enough defence to save himself. That may be wrong but the thing is its a freedom, a right he has that he would get nowhere else and if he really wasn't the crook then he was saved because somehow he had sufficient evidence. America is a double edged blade it is 50/50 everything so it will have points where its bad points outweigh the good ones but it always, /ALWAYS/ balances itself. We're not all that bad we haven't had a race riot in ages and nor have we had a holy war. I don't know for sure though, because sadly America is misinformed. Our media is more corrupt then our government so I couldn't tell you what is going on outside of what I see when I walk out my door.
So bash the government, but blame the aristocrats. It is the rich people who run those parts of the U.S. and they have grown so powerful that the people can't stand against them. But The American people, and I can't speak for all of us or the majority because I just know my friends, my family, my neighbors, my co-workers, hell even my boss are good people and would do anything to help anyone. No matter their creed, because we all have done it before. And we did it Without the fancy helicopters, or the 1000 manpower or the infinite amounts of money.
We do what we can, me and my little community. So to be honest I can't say All Americans are this or that nor this group of Americans approves this and not that. So if you can do it, please tell me how, because I'm an American and haven't been able to do it in 30 Years.
America is not a single people we are many people. I think I remember once Australia had some media guy say he'd, "pay for anyone who assaults any American they see.".. Another media person wrote in reply, " Good Luck with that, Americans are all different colors, all different shapes and sizes. They have many accents ranging from Asian to Canadian. They have all sorts of different religions and beliefs. So The only way to find one besides looking at his passport, was to hear his accent but even then you may mistake a Canadian and oppress the wrong countrymen rather then oppressing the one you wanted."
word for word, I'm unsure if that's what it said but the point is people make America, America doesn't make people and right now the idiot people are in charge but they won't be for long because it will balances itself out.
Hope that helps in helping you define what America is before giving opinions on it,
Mustang
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