Will the Republican party succeed in reducing America to a second rate nation?

Question

Those of us who are not Americans but still have maintained some respect for this once great nation (and we are getting fewer and fewer daily) wonder how much damage the Republicans can do to America's image, capabilities and society before it is irreperable.

Answer 1

Some statistics found elsewhere:

USA Ranking on Adult Literacy Scale: #9
(#1 Sweden and #2 Norway)- OECD

USA Ranking on Healthcare Quality Index: #37
(#1 France and #2 Italy)- World Health Organization 2003

USA Ranking of Student Reading Ability: #12
(#1 Finland and #2 South Korea)- OECD PISA 2003

USA Ranking of Student Problem Solving Ability: #26
(#1 South Korea and #2 Finland)- OECD PISA 2003

USA Ranking on Student Mathematics Ability: # 24
(#1 Hong Kong and #2 Finland)- OECD PISA 2003

USA Ranking of Student Science Ability: #19
(#1 Finland and #2 Japan)- OECD PISA 2003

USA Ranking on Women's Rights Scale: #17
(#1 Sweden and #2 Norway)- World Economic Forum Report

USA Position on Timeline of Gay Rights Progress: # 6 (1997)
(#1 Sweden 1987 and #2 Norway 1993)- Vexen

USA Ranking on Life Expectancy: #29
(#1 Japan and #2 Hong Kong)- UN Human Development Report 2005

USA Ranking on Journalistic Press Freedom Index: #32
(#1 Finland, Iceland, Norway and the Netherlands tied)- Reporters Without Borders 2005

USA Ranking on Political Corruption Index: #17
(#1 Iceland and #2 Finland)- Transparency International 2005

USA Ranking on Quality of Life Survey: #13
(#1 Ireland and #2 Switzerland)- The Economist Magazine ...Wikipedia "Celtic Tiger" if you still have your doubts.

USA Ranking on Environmental Sustainability Index: #45
(#1 Finland and #2 Norway)- Yale University ESI 2005

USA Ranking on Overall Currency Strength: #3 (US Dollar)
(#1 UK pound sterling and #2 European Union euro)- FTSE 2006....the dollar is now a liability, so many banks worldwide have planned to switch to euro

USA Ranking on Infant Mortality Rate: #32
(#1 Sweden and #2 Finland)- Save the Children Report 2006

USA Ranking on Human Development Index (GDP, education, etc.): #10
(#1 Norway and #2 Iceland)- UN Human Development Report 2005


So much for those "socialist" Europeans and those "backward" Asians, hm? We can do better than this.

Miscellany:
*Only 18% of Americans own passports and bother to travel outside of the US.
* New international student enrollment in US grad schools has decreased by 6%, because of xenophobic post-9/11 US visa restrictions, jacked-up tuition fees and better educational opportunities in the EU and Asia. So no, not everyone wants to come here anymore, because it's become a land of incredibly limited opportunity, and we've lowered our educational standards.

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I suggest you draw your own conclusions.

Answer 2

I am an expatriate from the US. I don't think there is much room left for the USA in the world. Even if we manage to elect a Democratic administration and congress, there has been so much harm done, that it would take a decade of world-wide peace to heal the damage done to the nation.

On the other hand, a wounded dragon is not good for world peace. I will do everything I can to make my compatriots realise that being top dog carries responsibilities, even after you are no longer top dog.

I would ask, as a personal favour, that anyone who can exert any sort of power over American politics, do whatever they can in whatever way. Non-violent means would be most productive.

Answer 3

Once great?! Name one other country where its citizens have the amount of freedom that we have here. Name one other country where its' citizens have the purchasing power that we have here. Go on name one! The only Americans that are bringing this country down are those that have grown up on a welfare system created by the Democrats. Liberal Americans ask on a daily basis what about me? What are you going to give me today? If those liberals got off their butts and did something to make themselves better they would make this country stronger, but instead they sit at home and wait for their welfare checks to land in their laps and complain that their government has somehow cheated them out of wealth that they believe they deserve. As for the rest of the world, what do they do for the world economy? How are they so much better of world citizen than the U.S. ?The facts are that the U.S. is a global economic leader and if the world wasn't jealous of that then there would not be such criticism of the U.S.

Answer 4

They've already done that. Respect for this country around the world dwindles daily. The only thing that can save it is a forward-thinking Democratic Congress elected this fall and then the election of a forward-thinking Democratic president in 2008.
Another Republican will drag this country so far down the toilet that there will be no help for it.

Answer 5

The Republicans have tarnished our reputation as a world leader and global peacekeeper. They have put American taxpayers TRILLIONS of dollars in debt, and have turned our country into a police state.

Within a generation, we will have become a second-rate nation with a two-tiered social class structure (similar to what you see in the Dominican Republic and Haiti today) where there's a handful of the very, very rich, and (the rest of us) the very, very poor. The middle class, having been obliterated by the Bush administration's failed economic plans and idiotic "wars", will no longer exist. Shortly after Bush leaves office, there will be a major economic depression in the country. Our line of credit will be exhausted with the Chinese, and they will simply come in and take whatever they want: assets, real estate, weapons of mass destruction, military hardware, oil, coal, all other natural resources, and even our women if they want them sold into sexual slavery.

Bush has dismantled environmental axioms designed to protect and preserve the delicate balance between man, plants, and all other animals. Bush believes any conflict can be resolved with enough guns and ammo. And Bush has neglected the needs of America's homeless, poor, aged, sick, disabled, underprivileged, disadvantage, and hungry while playing "Robin Hood in Reverse", stealing from the poor and giving it all to the rich.
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Has the Republican party succeeded in reducing America to a second-rate nation? YOU BET! And it's not over yet.

Unfortunately, the Democrats wouldn't do much better. If we vote all the rotten Republicans out of office, we only replace them with rotten Democrats. Until this country decides to take up arms and DEMAND our country back, nothing will change,

The 'Republicrats' have destroyed our political system, and - in the process - destroyed out national values, our patriotism, and our common decency. -RKO-

Answer 6

I am confident that once we get some good leadership in the US, we will be able to bounce back quickly. The Republican party will not succeed if the Democrats stop letting them. As Bill Clinton once said, "there is nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed by what's right with America".

Answer 7

As an American I sure hope not but they are trying to do as much damage as they can before we can vote them out. I am ashamed of our leaders lack of foresight and vision. And I despise our leaders lack of respect for laws put in place to protect us from people like them, and the fact that almost nothing is being done "officially" to rein them in. Also they have turned their back on modern American history by starting a war instead of finishing one. And of course I hate the fact that our leaders have turned their backs on the middle class. I guess when you have a lot of money and/or power you just think that you are smarter than everyone else and you deserve all of the perks & breaks that you vote for yourself. I'm just a dis-heartened ex-middle class guy who is sick of being **** on by the powers that be. And it doesn't matter how good of a job I do. The rich guy is going to squeeze us untill we stop him.

Answer 8

The Republican occasion jogs my memory of the British Conservative occasion of the 80's & ninety's. After the Tories lost the 1997 typical Election their Chairman, Theresa would, reported that individuals did no longer vote for them via fact they have been seen 'The Nasty occasion'. They theory that they had a God Given precise to rule the rustic with their ever diminishing help base which excluded all people who became into 'distinctive'. Blacks in straightforward terms welcome to proverbially 'clean their bathrooms', gay human beings tolerated as long as they saved their 'grimy secret' basically that. All immigrants referred to as 'social protection scroungers'. including those communities and various greater to the present voters who theory the Conservatives had have been given 'wealthy, fat & lazy' on the backs of respectable working human beings, a groundswell of help arose for the Democratic option - the Labour occasion. If the Republicans think of that they're going to regain the Presidency via helping precise wing bigots inclusive of those in the Tea occasion, i think they're in for a sprint bit a marvel.

Answer 9

America will have to fall awfully far to be considered second rate. There isn't a better country by far! I get your point, however, but it still makes no sense.... it's the Democratic party that is hurting America, not the Republican party.

Answer 10

I personallly think that with the way George Bush is running the country now, that yes, America will be reduced to a second rate nation.