Question for those over 40?

Question

think the U.S. has gone to hell?
what with jobs sent overseas, gay rights, minorities everywhere?

whoops forgot about all the damn liberals too lol

Answer 1

I'm not over 40 and if I was, I would never admit it :)

Yes I do think the country is going to hell in a handbasket at quite a rapid rate.

I have no problem with gay rights because that evolves actually progression. Part of the problem I see our country going to hell, is because the far right that likes to believe they are Christians, but they aren't, are trying to turn our country into a dictatorship and take away the civil liberties that have made us the free country that we are.

Answer 2

Yes, but other than the jobs going overseas, none of these things are any problem whatsoever if you're a true American. We all came here from other countries unless we're native Americans, and diversity and tolerance are the very things that made America the greatest and strongest Country ever.

The degree of Freedom is exactly equal to the degree of Tolerance.

So that's why this Country has gone down the crapper, gotten flushed, and sent straight to Hell ever since Bush's Nazis took over.

I despise no individual more than I loathe adolph hitler. But if not for the Nazis, Hitler would have been nothing more than a lonely, invisible little kook in a beer hall, slowly drinking himself to death on a dollar here and there from his shoddy landscape paintings. He would have been a nobody and a total failure, as nature had intended.

It's the same with mr. bush.

He'd have been a failed minor-league baseball team owner, sitting around unemployed in his p!ss-stained underwear six months out of the year, drinking Lone Star beer and Jim Beam, bothering no souls outside of poor Crawford. Exactly as nature had intended.

But in came the nazis and the rest is history.
Bad history.
America turned into Amerika and it's truly gone straight to Hell.

I am not a tolerant person when my land of Freedom is turned into a concentration camp for all but the ultra-wealthy, and Liberty, Equality, and Freedom are words that are misused by the very person and people who have slayed them.

But they're not dead yet. When they come back, look out, nazis. You're the ones who don't love it, so you can all leave it, and we'll buy the tickets. You'd fit right in in Iraq. You wanted it so bad and you're so proud of it, you go live there. And take the National Debts with you. George and the money one.

Answer 3

Yes, but again, not the problems you talk about. We have gotten away from the values we used to have. We teach kids today, its OK to fail, you can blame someone else. We have to have " Big Brother" take care of us so welfare is OK, because we have some four generations of it.

We let our Rights, fought for and won in blood, slowly get taken away because we want to be politically correct and not make waves. We have politicans who vote a party line instead of what is best for America. We also have politicans that are crooks, have killed people, still holding office and running this country down the drain.

We let a minority of people, the gay rights bunch, the Atheists, and anyone else with an Axe to grind, have their way so we don't offend anyone. When we let ACLU take " Merry Christmas" out of the stores and communities and replace it with Winter Holiday greetings, we have lost our will as a society. We let third rate countries dictate to us instead of telling them to get bent.

America for better or worse, is still the greatest Nation on earth and we the People, need to step up and demand our country get back where it belongs.

Answer 4

I'm 67 and have seen a lot; I've watched my country's democracy go down the toilet under both Democratic and Republican regimes; distracted Americans have let corrupt politicians become totally subservient to money interests; yet there is hope, as history has shown, that when the pain of a cruel economy harming working- and middle-class people gets bad enough people will rise up. For the answers on what needs to be done to restore American democracy and fix its economy read the great new book Delusional Democracy - Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government.

Answer 5

Gone to hell? No. Changed dramatically in many ways? Yes. Change is not always a bad thing. Jobs being sent overseas....we pushed them there, it is our own fault. Gay right.....I'm not gay so if they want to get married and be as miserable as the other married people let them, it doesn't effect me. Minorities everywhere....you forget the US is a nation born from minorities. Read the inscription on the Statue of Liberty...we've always welcomed and encouraged the minorities to come here...live with it.

Answer 6

Yup.
But the gays aren't the problem.
Neither are the minorities.
Neither are we.

The world has shifted, it's a cruel and unfair place. People our age remember the great America.
We caught the tail end of the dream. But the world has shifted and changed.
There are a lot of reasons, but overall I agree. We have gone to hell. The jobs are gone, the American worker is dead. The face and race of America has changed. We are slowly becoming what we used to call "Third World".
Our rule is over. And it's sad.

Answer 7

Going, Going, Gone to hell. I can't imagine it getting any worse but I know it will. Bad to think but sometimes I think if there was a war here it would at least make it a place our children would be proud to call home.
Nothing good comes without sacrifice.

Answer 8

Yes, but none of the things you mention are the problem.

Jobs going overseas is a basic function of capitalism. Businesses buy where inexpensive and sell to make a profit. That's the way capitalism is supposed to work. People are just upset because many other countries are better at it than the US is.

And discrimination based on gender or race or sexual orientation never made American great. It was just a shameful part of our history that we still apparently haven't outgrown.

The problem is people no longer respecting differences, being intolerant of others, and trying to force everyone to conform to their own personal preferences. The problem is people whining and complaining because they can't force everyone else to do conform to their personal expectations.

Such as the examples you gave above.

Answer 9

Jobs are going over seas because most Americans are lazy and over paid. If a company can make more money sending my job to India, it's my fault not India's.

Gays should have the same rights are everyone else, are they lesser human beings because they don't kiss members of the opposite sex?

Minorities everywhere??? That's pretty raciest.

When's your next Klan meeting going to start or are you just a Nazi bible thumper?

Your hate is what's sending the US to hell, oh ya and Red States.

Answer 10

America is progressive and has always been a land of opportunities. I do think that there should be more assimilation to the standards of language and customs from immigrants instead of making current America adapt to them, but it's still the greatest country in the world.... bar none.