Is America Still America?

[Honkey_Kong]

America as a nation, does not still exist.

The fact of the matter is America is no-longer a group of people with similar backgrounds, values, ethnicity and a common sense of destiny. And really as I think about it, I don't know if you could say America ever truly was that.

We romanticize the idea of what America was.. But it never really was that.

What we have is a country and a government that doesn't represent the people that live inside it.
We don't have any culture in us. That''s why we go from one fad to the next.

[Metalject]

America as a nation, does not still exist.

The fact of the matter is America is no-longer a group of people with similar backgrounds, values, ethnicity and a common sense of destiny. And really as I think about it, I don't know if you could say America ever truly was that.

We romanticize the idea of what America was.. But it never really was that.

What we have is a country and a government that doesn't represent the people that live inside it.
We don't have any culture in us. That''s why we go from one fad to the next.

In many ways you're right, America never was a country of shared similar backgrounds, ethnicities and to a degree values have always been different. But the overall point in America was supposed to be a shared interest and desire in being able to choose your own destiny, to be beholden to no man or government. Sadly that idea has become a fantasy - we view things like the Declaration of Independence as simple little things that we learned about in 6th grade social studies rather than the intrinsic words that define us as a country, a unique country. We compare ourselves to other countries, a useless endeavor as we were never intended to be comparable.

Will it get worse? Probably, I do not think we're at the point of no return, but we are rapidly approaching it and are closer every day. Is a giant reset, a catastrophe going to occur? I think that is unavoidable at this stage, when is impossible to predict, but in our lifetime or the next are equally possible. The American dollar loses its value, truly crumbles, which can happen at this delicate stage anytime in the next 24hrs to the next 30yrs (impossible to predict) but it is going to happen and when it does we crumble. The only question at that stage is are we past the point of no return, can we reclaim or do we simply become an unrecognizable nation that carries the name of a nation of old?

As others have mentioned in this thread, liberals being the problem, in my opinion liberals are NOT the problem. That is simply another talking point we've let creep in. Progressivism is the problem, social justice (an impossible cause) is the problem and both modern day liberals and conservatives share this problem...it's a problem that's infected both sides. When Americans recognize the disease of progressivism, then we begin to fix the problem. But right now we're too busy arguing democrat and republican, meaningless social issues, and worrying about whatever gives us happiness in the moment.