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 We're egotistical bullies, more talk than substance, and have no business boating about anything or trying to dictate to others when our shit is far from together

So much is upside down, and we don't even know how dumb we sound when we say it's smart to be ignorant, cool to be doing unhealthy activities, strong to be out of touch with our humanity, good to elevate people for nothingness, free by being rude, exercising free speech when it's just cruelty and bullying, saying we're Christian by being hateful, etc.

 Living on credit is a legacy and has been a downfall. How do we get out of the trap?

 We say we work hard, but do most of us, really? We say worker smarter rather than harder, but smarter for us tends to not look smart in the long run. It just means taking shortcuts and trying to make a fast buck by any means necessary,

 Some of what passes for art now is sloppy, and whatever it's called when you just copy what's already been done. We need to value our artists and encourage their development as worthy and beneficial to society.

 We've been doing a lousy job of preparing our kids to assume responsibility ably. They lack practical knowledge and we've taken the teaching of those skills out of schools.

 Did we mess up with we industrialized and mess up more when we shifted to the information age?

 Does it benefit us at all to maintain the construct of race and argue within that construct. or is that absurd?

 We love competition? Can we use that to our advantage? Can we vie for greatest city/state?

 Do we need to stop meddling and turn our attention inward?

 What does our stance need to be on influx of more citizens as we endeavor to be great? Does greatness include an open door policy?

 How do all these tings complicate our striving for greatness?

 They're a big part of our lives. How do they impact us?

 Our bipartisan structure is problematic. Is it time to abolish parties and take big money out of politics? Do we need an overhaul?

 Maybe we're not great because we were founded on a disingenuous premise. and we've never come to terms with that. Our Anglo, expansionist roots are problematic.

 And why? What do they have that we don't? What characterizes the countries whose citizens report being happy?

 How did we become such poor communicators and so illiterate? We don't read, we can't write, and we don't know we can't write well.

 Have we gone too far? Has it made us dumber and lazy?

Describe it. How does it keep us from focusing on real issues?

 How it happened, how we remedy it

 How racist are we? Is it worse now or better?

 Is it problematic? Can we attribute a lot to it?

 Then and now. Breakdown is undeniably a problem.

 How is it different? What will change it?

 Why are some people fighting it?

Are there any good aspects? How can we frame and regard it properly? What place does it have in a 'great' America?

 We need to value activities and individuals who are not materialistic and ego driven

 Gotta improve it

 And it's white middle class doing it

 Where did it go? Why are we vulgar?

 Is garbage. When it was good.

 It's gotta go

 Not what it used to be, not doing us any favors. Loss of objectivity, collusion with politicians,

 Why we have them, how they bind us, where they can get us messed up. Do we need to return to them, create new ones?

 Recognize it's what made us strong and can again, not to be feared.

 It has to be a priority

 It has to be a priority

 Identify them and figure out why/

 Undeniable that the wealth gap plays a major role? Is a return to different type of economy a solution? Is the city-state or something similar a solution?

What can we learn from non-Americans? What do we now envy about other countries?

 Delineate the specifics that changed things

 What we can all agree on, what we can't

 For me, for others

 Do they know what  they mean? I think I know, can they articulate it? When they do, is it legitimate and real?

 More harm than good

 My background, perspective

 When Donald Trump's campaign unveiled the "Make America Great" slogan at the start of his 2016 presidential run, it was a stroke of genius, if you characterize genius as manipulation that works seamlessly and benefits a few power hungry, money grubbing opportunists while leaving a majority of Americans poor, unhealthy, stressed, angry, and blaming one another. When conservative Republicans latched on to Trump and the MAGA meme, it sounded great. I sounded great because most Americans were highly dissatisfied with the current state of the US and the direction in which they perceived it as heading. Of course, many white Americans who felt themselves losing ground  while faced with the first Black American president in the country's history, sought to place the blame on Barack Obama. It had to be his fault, they rationalized, his and those who supported him. It had to be Democrats' fault that the fabric of the country they loved seemed to be fraying and they no long...