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[QUOTE="cuseinchina, post: 791947, member: 3079"]
This has nothing to do with hating America, it has to do with wanting it to survive.  The trends at play don't bode well for our continued excellence.   I don't think we will become the next Japan with 20+ years of deflationary misery, our economy is too dynamic for that and our higher eduction system too good...investment and entrepreneurship are still rewarding here.   But we are looking more and more like a run of the mill developed world economy, middle of the pack at best.   The lack of investment in or reform of grade school / high school education and in infrastructure (physical and digital) is stark.   Over time you can't compete if that doesn't change.  We have lost our sense of common purpose that made this country strong from WW II to the fall of the berlin wall.  Now as we start to see the effects of years of underinvestment, and the reversal of financial excess in the post cold-war world (too much leverage, real estate bubbles etc), we are turning on ourselves and being polarized by silly issues because people like to take power in times of uncertainty by making people angry about something - immigration, taxes, abortion restrictions, what have you - the politics of fear rule the day and this rips the country apart and leads us to continued gradual decline on a relative basis in this world.

I don't hate America, and I'm actually not really a liberal, I want to see this country leading the world again - I'm not sure how focusing on keeping out Mexican apple pickers gets us towards that goal.
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