Why do so many Americans BASH their own country?

Question

I"m sick of it...They Gays do it, the Atheist do it, the Muslim-Americans, the African-Americans. Everyday there are 100s of Questions & Answers that totally condemn this Country. WHY THE HELL DO YOU STAY HERE? WHY DON'T YOU LEAVE? If I don't respect a person...I don't go over to their house. If I don't like a grocery store, I don't go there. Why don't all you American bashing people go find yourself the land of milk and honey where everything is perfect, and stop whining about how terrible it is here. GO HOME, or GET OUT.

WOW...there are some really good, well thought out answers. Thanks...Oh and BTW to those of you who asked. I spent 15 years in the Marine Corp. I saw more blood and guts in Vietnam than hines has pickles.

Answer 1

I AGREE... I AM SO SICK OF DEFENDING A BUNCH OF NON-AMERICANS. THEY AREN'T REAL AMERICANS.. THEY JUST CLAIM TO BE.. ALL THEY DO IS WHINE, CRY AND COMPLAIN... A NICE CHUNK OF MY CHECK GOES TO SOCIAL SECURITY AND WELFARE... THOSE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE BASHING THE COUNTRY... THEY NEED TO GO BACK TO THEIR OWN.. MAYBE IT WILL BE A LITTLE REMINDER WHY THEY CAME HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE..

I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THEIR "FREEDM OF SPEECH" AS FAR AS BASHING THIS COUNTRY. I DOUBT THAT FREEDOM OF SPEECH WAS EVER MEANT TO DEGRADE AMERICA. IT'S A MELTING POT OF FREEDOMS AND CULTURES... WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT? THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY GIVES THE MINORITY ENTIRELY TOO MUCH! COME ON... STOP WHINING OR GET OUT!!

IT'S ONE THING TO REALIZE WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT AND STRIVE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE...

IT'S ANOTHER TO WHINE AND COMPLAIN... MOAN AND GROAN AND NOT GET OFF YOUR FAT REAR!

I SERVE MY COUNTRY IN THE ARMED FORCES... WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT? YOUR NOT THE ONE FIGHTING FOR THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, RELIGION, OR ANYTHING ELSE? SO WHY SHOULD YOU GET TO RUN YOUR MOUTH?

Answer 2

You forget that the Christians do it to...so do the Jews, and all other types of people.

The reason we bash the country is because it deserves to be bashed. We're a cesspool of immorality. And the reason we don't leave is because we can't. It's ridiculously hard to just up and go to another country. I mean, really. Have you ever tried to get citizenship in another country. Or even a job in another country?

Honestly though, I think it can be a very good thing that so many people hate our country. Maybe we'll change a bit.

Finally, wanting to change a country is not the same as trying to change somebody else's store or house. Every citizen of America has a constitutional right to try and reform their home. That's why it's a democracy.

Face it...America is a land of unrest at the moment. Perhaps nothing like the Middle East, but still, the unrest is there. If you don't like it, why don't you take your own advice and just get out?

Answer 3

I would go to Iraq but....America paid Saddam Hussein $80 to come to power and now this. I would go to Afghanistan but...America put the Taliban in power and now this. I would go to Saudi Arabia but...America put the Saudi family in power w/ the help of England and Abdul Wahab (agent initiating Wahhabism) and now this. The list goes on and on. I don't know where American Muslims who've been here longer than this individual asking the question will go. I guess Native American Muslims should go to Alaska. Hispanic Muslims should go to Mexico and South America. Hmmm... That would only leave the KKK and conservative republicans. This country is not God or the representation of God. People that bashed this country fought against this country so we can sit here on Yahoo! Answers. Bashing is what makes people think some times but now a days, every one seems to be blind. Note, these were Muslim examples, there are a billion Atheists, Gays, Christians, Jews etc who want democracy to work but it wont b/c its controlled by corporate war mongers which you might actually be one of their stock holders supporting them. Have a great day.

Answer 4

Oh my goodness. You poor thing.

Until you have taken up a post, picked up a rifle and defended the two men on either side of you and the 12 men in front and in back of you----I suggest you save your indignation for another blog.

Why do you bash your parents? Why do you bash you schools? Why do you bash your teachers? Why do you bash every level of authority over you? I'm tired of reading about teenagers more worried about when they can have sex than they are how much they could help their parents at home. I'm tired of reading posts from teenagers and adults, alike, that are so miswritten that the reader can't understand them. I'm tired of hearing how so many people are more worried about getting what they want that they stamp their feet a little louder, use the foulest language they can, then hold their breath until they turn blue----just so they get what they want. And they're not 3 years old. How tired of all this are you, really? Then change your own piece of the earth first. Be an example.

To answer your childish demand----We are home, my dear. We who have hands-on experience in fighting for our homes have the right to b be here and to have our voices heard---sometimes, I believe---more than those who have chosen NOT to defend Her. Our Flag was sometimes the one object that got our POWs one more breath, one more step, one more day until they could get home---but the disrespect for our flag is horrific.

We bash this country? I think not. We bash the people who are governing this country--the ones who are raping its resources; the ones who would rather make a buck than a friend; the ones who would rather see America shamed and belittled than honored and held in high regard.

WE DO NOT BASH OUR COUNTRY. Some of us left our souls on foreign soil so you could write on this blog such angry and ignorant words. YOU'RE WELCOME, BY THE WAY.

Some of us watched our sons, daughters, friends, our brothers and sisters in arms, beaten, starved, demeaned, and driven to the brink of insanity so we could have a voice----YES A VOICE---in how our country is run. I don't believe you have the courage or the will to stop that. We've paid so others have the rights. Have you?

You may not know this, but this country is OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE---and those people have voices, rights, and opinions. If you don't like that these people exercise the rights people have died to keep----I suggest you get out. You don't want freedom; you want a dictatorship. I hear they have a seat ready for you on the next C-130 out. Why don't you take it and see what a dictatorship makes.

Answer 5

Americans bash this country the same way people in other locations do their native countries. We are not unique. The difference is that we don't killed or jailed for it. If people didn't complain this wouldn't be America... Read a book dummy! How do yo think the America of today was started... By Britains complaining about their country.

If people didn't complain laws wouldn't get made, change would never happen and we wouldn't be the super power we are today. Ignorant people like yourself are really the ones who should leave... As a matter of fact, get the HELL OUT of my imperfect country!! Go start your own and call it "IDIOTLAND"!!

Answer 6

To the contrary, everything is not perfect in this country or any other country for that matter. Many people who bash the country are actually quite patriotic and they hate to see what the politicians are to doing to this wonderful country. If citizens see things that aren't right with the U.S then they should speak out. It's the only way that change can come about. People who bash the country shouldn't leave it they should change it! This country was founded on these principles and I hope they continue.

Answer 7

It's a matter of convenience. And, in fact, when you bash the people like what you're doing now, you are bashing the country. Americans do this because of the need for cultural superiority, or at least standing ground. People don't want the "land of milk and honey" they want to argue. And we are staying until we start falling off at the edges due to overpopulation, that's all.

Answer 8

Speaking as a non-American (I'm British) I think that you should be proud that your democracy is amongst those too few in the world which can allow free-speech, criticism and even slander but still be strong. Freedom and truth will shine through.
I get frustrated just like you but tolerance annoys the type of person you are talking about more than violent reaction. Haven't you got a special holiday coming up? Rejoice that false words will not destroy what is good and valid in your society.

Answer 9

Stop conflating people hating the government's policies with people hating the country.

Damn near all the people that hate America hate its policies. Travelling worldwide, I've only found one person openly hostile to me once I said I was from America, and that person was a mugger.

People don't like the chronic belligerance and swagger of the current president. They don't like a Congress which is more obsessed with stopping boys from kissing and the rare flagburning than with stopping people from dying and actually supporting democracy with the flick of a pen than with the barrel of a gun. (That's diplomatically/economically rather than militarily.)

The formerly fiscally restrained Republicans have become the "dine and dash" spenders, charging up Uncle Sam's American Express card to flush millions of dollars in black holes. (There is about a planeload of money that's unaccounted for in Iraq. People were playing catch with $100,000 bricks of cash!) Reconstruction work isn't getting done, politically connected contractors are getting paid infinite money to do as close to zero as they can, energy companies are making obscene profits (I said six years ago that oil should just be at $45 per barrel - enough for a healthy margin and reasonable pump prices).

My favorite lie Bush said is that invading Iraq would be like a huge tax cut for the world in that its oil would be freely flowing again. Ha!

Answer 10

Dear sir,

I bash Rumsfeld. I bash Cheney. I bash Bush and his toadies. I certainly bash Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts. I bash congress (but not my senators -- I'm from Oregon and Wyden's a great senator... and Smith does a decent job, too), but not as much as I bash the plethora of news outlets that all say the same thing with the only difference being whether they're spinning clockwise or counterclockwise. I bash corporations who subsidize the news and are intent on keeping the status quo of pollution and over-consumption to fill their coffers. I bash the ignorant citizens who buy into it (doubly so if they're proud of having dubious tastes). I bash city planners who have never seen a real city with an honest-to-God skyline and road constructors who have never seen a well-managed project with an honest-to-God timeline.

But I do not bash my own country.

See, my own country has a government that is of, by and for the people. My own country separates church and state, legality and morality. My own country believes in freedom of speech -- not just between citizens, but against the government to redress greivances. My own country believes in a freedom from proactive intrusion by the government into my civilian life. And if I were to actually break a law, my own country believes in following a due process of law for my country to redress its grievance against me because my own country operates on the rule of the law, not of transient elected men.

And while my own country may believe in maintaining military might as a deterrance from any enemy that would not want to risk its own destruction, my own country also knows that

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."

(For the record, Eisenhower -- republican, mind you -- said both things.)

That said, legally changing countries is really quite expensive... which is a significant part of why there are so many residents here in the USA listed as "illegal." That's why.