If liberals are so
f.uckin' smart, how
come they lose so godda.mn always?
And with a straight face, you're going to tell
students that America is
so starspangled awesome that we're the only ones in the world
who have freedom? Canada has freedom, Japan has freedom, the UK,
France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom!
Two hundred and seven sovereign states in the world, like 180 of
them have freedom.
And yeah, you... sorority girl. Just in case you
accidentally wander into
a voting booth one day, there are some things you should know,
and one of them is:
There is absolutely no evidence to support the statement
that we're the greatest country in the world.
We're seventh in literacy,
twenty-seventh in math, twenty-second in
science, forty-ninth in life expectancy, 178th
in infant mortality, third in median household
income, number four in labor force, and
number four in exports. We lead the world in
only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens
per capita, number of adults who believe angels
are real, and defense spending, where
we spend more than the next twenty-six countries
combined, twenty-five of whom are allies.
None of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but
you, nonetheless, are without a doubt a member of the
Worst. Period. Generation. Period. Ever.
Period,
So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the
world, I don't know what the
f.uck you're
talking about! Yosemite?
We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right.
We fought for moral reasons, we passed laws, struck down
laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor
people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our
money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We
built great big things, made ungodly technological advances,
explored the universe, cured diseases, and we cultivated the
world's greatest artists and the world's greatest
economy.
We reached for the stars, acted like men. We aspired to
intelligence;
we didn't belittle it; it didn't make us feel inferior.
We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last
election, and we didn't scare so easy. We were able to be all
these things and do all these things because we were informed. By
great men, men who were revered. The first step in solving any
problem is recognizing there is one.
America is not the greatest country in the world
anymore.