Why do you think America is the best country in the world?
Why do you think America is the best country in the world?
No, although I wouldn't contend that there is a single greatest country. Lots of countries are great for different reasons. However, if I had to make a list the US probably wouldn't even make the top 25. The US is number one in a lot of awful categories like drug addiction, divorce, obesity, and incarceration. It's very low on things that I find important like education spending, and infant mortality. I don't hate the US, but I do find that nationalism tends to blind people there. You can't fix a problem if you don't realise that it exists.
I don’t. My country has a host of problems, not the least of which is both political parties refusing to see eye to eye with each other, and a decent portion of one of them refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and taking up valuable hospital beds that people actually need. This is not to mention the hosts of racial injustice that people of color face in our nation. We are probably top 50 countries, but nowhere near the best.
What do you mean “greatest”? It’s big but it’s not the biggest. It’s populous but it’s not the most populous. It’s a democracy but international rankings of countries by level of democracy put America in the second rank “flawed democracy” around #15 or thereabouts. It’s rich in natural resources but not uniquely so. It’s in the temperate latitudes but is prey to violent weather and, in the West, earthquakes. It has upward mobility but less than in the past and less than some other democracies. Women have a broad range of rights but other countries have more women in leadership roles in government.
It does lead the world in popular culture, in part because American popular culture is a fusion of many international influences, making it a culture that many around the world can see a bit of their own culture in it.
And it does have the world’s most powerful military in terms of capability at fighting a war against another sizeable country. However, it has fallen short in understanding the hybrid warfare practiced proficiently by both China and Russia, our main international adversaries.
Lastly, it’s the world’s first large-scale democracy—the cradle of modern democracy—but like many if not most pioneering projects, it suffers from anachronisms more recent democracies learned to avoid from seeing our example. And since unlike the world’s other modern democracies, it was founded as a slaver nation, the specter of how slavery degrades both the slaves and the slavers, even though slavery was outlawed a century and a half ago, remnants of slave and slaver culture continue to cast a shadow over the country.
The result of those anachronisms is a democracy in which its rural/small town conservative demographic wields far more voting power than its numbers alone would justify. And because this demographic tends to be uneducated and ignorant of critical thinking, it’s prey to being manipulated by demagogues. Hence Trump.
But whether it’s “great” in some noble, morally superior way or not, what is for sure is that right now it’s the most important nation on Earth. Americans may not generally know much about the world, but the world is always aware of America and what it’s up to.
And American “greatness” is a constant meme exploited by right wing demagogues on the Republican Party’s ignorant rural base, who are the least qualified to know how great America is because they know almost nothing about the rest of the world.
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