What's Happened to America?

Question

Americans used to be the rebels of the world. We were respected because we rebelled against aggression and stuck up for the weak.

Now we've become the same thing we fought against during the revolution.

Now we're the occupiers trying to police against rebels.

Answer 1

We've reached the pinnacle of our glory and are going downhill from here. We've become soft and thus, other nations know if they simply kill our soldiers and out-wait us, we'll grow tired and eventually go home. We're a society with only enough attention span for a 30 minute sitcome.

Answer 2

Is not America, America are the people of America and are good people, The problem is the government that sworn to respect and obey the laws of the nation and what they are doing is selling our country to the best bidder.. Because of this we might become the next Rome in their last years of their destruction... Shame ! Wake up America before is too late. It is more than the war in Iraq, it is also the out sourcing of our jobs, the give away of our high tech secrets, our continuous borrowing from China, the selling of our structures, like roads, ports, bridges, etc. the unfair trade policies, giving amnesty to millions and millions of poor illegal aliens, not securing our border and ports, raising the amount of legals coming to our country to more than a million a year, etc. All of these is crazy and our country and economy, the economy for the American people not the economy for the big interest is hurting the middle class and this so called US government don't give a sh-t about it. Wake up America is getting late.

Answer 3

We are rebelling against the aggression of Islamofacists and sticking up for the weak Iraqi people who need a stable government before we leave. And we are still looking for bin Laden in Afghanistan, no batter what the biased liberal media tells you.

Answer 4

After reading the answers posted on this site I know what is happening to America. It is really quite simple. We are releasing from school a bunch of simpletons who don't know what is right or wrong, truth or fiction. Occasionally I read a reply from someone who is truly bright but it is rare. Reading an Internet site put there by a sickie isn't going to give you the answers you need before you can arrive a sound decision about America. You have read several newspapers, listen to and watch several different types of TV commentators and then discuss the various subjects with knowledgeable friends if you have them. Then....post your reply.

Answer 5

Our government is being bought by big business. Profit has become all important to the few while the many suffer. Jobs outsourced, cheap labor welcomed. Manufacturing plants closing all over America while Made in China is everywhere. Illegal aliens flooding into America severely taxing our social infrastructure and congress sits and tries to think of ways to make the illegals, legal. A taxpayer black hole called Iraq and our world image being shattered daily. Our government it seems is falling down on the job or so corrupt we can't even begin to imagine.

Answer 6

This is a capitalist society and it's not the red states or the blue states it's the lobbyist greenbacks! The rebels and the weak are rebels and weak because they don't have the greenbacks and when they get the greenbacks they are no longer rebels or weak their capitalist...swimming pools and mansions. and the music goes round and round

Answer 7

An easy answer would be Americans were betrayed by their politicians, but I think it's very much because Americans did not pay heed to the fact that vigilance is required for healthy democracy, and they allowed the Zionist and the corporate media to shape their vision and values. I hope more and more people will recognize the problems as you have and we'll see people-oriented reform.

Answer 8

what's happened to this site? instead of asking things people make political/religious statements disguised as "questions." but, anyways, this is what i think: greed. our country is being sold out from beneath us, jobs sent to other countries, cost of living is sky high, and the politicians are all crooks. that's what has happened. we just had a high standard of living to start with (the so-called american dream). so the decline has been slow and not that noticeable until someone looks at it like you did, and then it hits you in the face. while america is living in inflation, which most americans don't seem to want to believe, GREEDY people start wars not for liberty but so that they can profit off of innocent lives. it's so so sad.

Answer 9

i really dont think that we have become what you say that we have become because we still help the weak countries. right now we are trying to help the Iraq people get a stable government because people there are dying unrightfully by their own people and the old governmnet leaders. America is still helping the weaker countries, the media in America make it seem like we are not, but thats not true.

Answer 10

Ha! I swear to you, just before I read this I got an e-mail telling me of a concert in Boston starring Chicago and America. THAT'S what happened to America! They're touring with Chicago. In Boston. America. See?

I've got to be honest with you - we stuck up for the that certainly doesn't make it the nice kid on theweak at times, and we bullied others. The period of our first few Presidents was a hellish but inspiring time. There was still unnecessary massacre on both sides. The Civil War was perhaps America's most moral war, but it was truly fought for land more than anything else. The Yanks didn't care too much for people of color, although most didn't believe in slavery. The Rebs outwardly used and despised blacks. Both sides were American. It's not much different today. I didn't have to go through WWII, Korea, or Vietnam, so I cannot speak for those days, but I doubt they were much better than they are today, if at all. We have the most ridiculous, nasty government around and an egomaniacal idiot for a President, but for now no one is shooting college students for protesting the war. We've got that much.

I do agree with you, though. The feeling in the air often seems to be tenser than I remember it growing up in the '80s, but I was just a kid. I saw some war protestors in my city today and almost cried - it takes a LOT of courage for 3 people to stand up in the midst of it all and ask for peace and truth. I would have been scared someone would throw something at me, right next to traffic like that. THAT is frightening in and of itself - I am afraid of "pro-war" people because the majority become incensed when you tell them not only was it over a long time ago, but it never should have begun. My ex-roomate's nostrils used to flare, and she'd tighten her fists. Whatever Rush Limbaugh & Massah Bush said was the word of her God and if I brought up the war at all she'd start screaming. Scary stuff. I think it's much the same as the Civil War in many ways though. I live in the Northeast, mostly democratic. As you go further south, you'll find more and more people gunning to keep the war going in Iraq. "We gotta win!" they'll tell you after they beat you senseless, "Don't you see?" As if there is any "winning", especially in this war. As if the troops lives don't matter, just the ideology. As if the lives of Iraqi men, women, and children don't matter, just the words "we won".

I will continue rebelling and sticking up for the weak until I am no longer of this world. I know you will, too. Let's go, us! ;-)

*Colorado* - "flea the poverty and corruption in their native countries"? Flea? And you're telling the young that they're uneducated? It is news to me that all Iraqis want to kill us, that we are giving billions of dollars in aid to Venezuela. We stopped giving aid to Venezuela in the mid-60s. You didn't know that? Here, you might like to read up on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_aid_to_Venezuela

Also, it sure as heck isn't Colombia's marijuana fields America is so concerned with, nor is it their 'cocoa' production. I thought we were still giving billions of aid to Colombia? Hmmm. Remember when Bush said in 2002 that we were "taking the terror war" to Colombia? I haven't seen that - it seems to me that the Colombian government is trying to halt production themselves and really don't need our help, which they're not getting anyway.

I would advise you to research your information before telling the rest of us to "Put things in perspective and use your noggins." I agree that America is a good place to live in regard to a number of other countries, but that certainly doesn't make it the nice kid on the playground.