What if everywhere you went...people were dignified, kind and helpful?
2007-04-20 16:50:38 · 14 answers · asked by Sincere1 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The greatest thing about America is that it's the greatest country on Earth. The saddest thing about the world is that America is the greatest country on Earth.
2007-04-20 16:56:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Speaking as an American, if I "woke up Monday and found America to be a brilliant, focused, and competent nation," I would be too brilliant, focused, and competent to check Yahoo Answers to see what the best answer was. If everyone else who reads and answers your question is an American, they would never know either. They would have such brilliant lives that they would never have to come here looking for answers to their questions, or looking to answer other peoples' questions.
2007-04-20 23:57:13 · answer #2 · answered by lisajeancollins 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd first go outside and see what the weather was like.
If it were still springtime, I'd ask how the hell I wound up in Canada.
If it were more like autumn, I'd ask how the hell I wound up in Austrailia.
Get the picture? It's not going to happen. Your CEOs, and especially your Big Oil FatCats, just have too much money invested in keeping ordinary people like you and I "dumb, docile and dependent". Or just plain in despair and desperate.
Really, I was born in St. Louis, Missouri. My parents moved around a *lot* in these United States when I was younger. I've spent time with my family living in Colorado, Arizona, California, Alabama, Missouri and Illinois. And yes, my family was dirt poor to destitute, and my parents were abusive, messed-up people, so I know I am not unbiased here, but....
What you describe just isn't possible historically. It hasn't been possible since World War II and odds are wasn't entirely possible for everyone *back then*. Even in the 1970s when I was a kid growing up in front of the TV and the nation was more or less the polar opposite of what it is now politically and economically, even *then* we all pissed and moaned about how Jimmy Carter didn't handle Iran so well at all, and how people were still attacked and lynched for being too "different" or in the wrong part of town.
This "brilliant, focused, and competent nation" of which you speak doesn't exist here....it isn't allowed to exist here, because the Rich Men, and the Politicians and Judges they *OWN OUTRIGHT*, say so. And of course, HMOs and their bigoted, messed-up vision of "health care" that screws *everyone* with a psychiatric issue of any sort, that really doesn't help.
Sorry I'm not being helpful here. -_- Because the truth is, there is no answer to your question, that "America" you describe is imaginary. Utterly so. And it would *break my heart* to try to imagine being in a nation where my struggles to get the university education, get a decent job, actually *mattered* and actually *counted* for something more than a mountain of debt I will *never ever* get out from under.
It would break my heart, at this late point, now that I am 40 and nearly used up courtesy of my health issues, it would break my heart if *NOW* I'm somehow actually able to *work* and also maintain health care that *covers my meds and therapy*, and still be able to earn an honest living without making myself crazy courtesy of abusive managers and Rich Men who Own It All. Yeah sure, now that my life is half-over, half-wasted courtesy of HMOs and student loans and nutjob "professional help" screwing me over, sure, *now* give me what I've always wanted in life....
Just long enough to get me needing it to get by, so you can kick me when I am down *again* once you outsource the damn job to *China* or to *Dubai* where folks *want to* work in an open sewer for pennies an hour.
Sure. And hell itself just froze over solid all the way down.
What exactly are you selling? And what's the catch? What is your *excuse* to *exclude* people like me from your "new society" this time?
Just asking. -_- And this *is* a good Question, even if it doesn't parse worth a damn.
2007-04-21 00:12:13 · answer #3 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would have woken up in a different country.
Come to think of it, which country is brilliant, focused and competent? I don't know of any, but it sure isn't the USA.
2007-04-20 23:56:19 · answer #4 · answered by whocrit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would buy a newspaper to check the date, if not in the forties then would look into my wallet to see if the money was Canadien.
If not would roll over and go back to sleep as I would want to see where the rest of this dream would take me.
Awesome Q
2007-04-20 23:59:19 · answer #5 · answered by Jack L. W. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So I take it that Bush is out of office.
Not that there's nothing else to improve, but that would be a requirement that follows from your first statement especially, right?
I'd be happy with just more people being that way or everyone being a bit more in that direction.
2007-04-20 23:54:27 · answer #6 · answered by Michael 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would swear off whatever i was drinking before i had that dream. part of what makes america great is the fact that we are not all the same; if all of us were these three things we would have lost a lot.
2007-04-21 00:02:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would go back to sleep again and wait until I wake up in the real world!
2007-04-20 23:53:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd be dreaming.
It's happened before, where I thought I had woken up but really I was dreaming. It will probably happen again.
2007-04-20 23:53:42 · answer #9 · answered by Kharm 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would think that I had woken up in Japan, but I could understand everybody.
2007-04-20 23:58:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anthony Stark 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋