Whence this pride? Your social mobility and quality of life are decreasing. They're inferior to those in many other countries. The US is no longer the land of opportunity.
No you can't. Try booking a flight to Havana.
We criticized the godless commies for forbidding exit. How's that any different from forbidding entrance. A door locked from either side is still a locked door.
"...do whatever we deem necessary at any time"? What does that mean? Sounds like an imperialistic, might makes right boast. Sounds like a justification for invading Poland -- or Iraq.
A country where you can be ejected from a public, political meeting for having the wrong party's bumper sticker on your car, or wearing a T-shirt supporting the other party's candidate? Your right to disagree is being seriously eroded, in case you haven't noticed. All digital communications is monitored. Police can do secret break-ins and searches, and there's currently a bill before congress allowing the military to imprison any citizen permanently with no charges or trial, if they are believed to be a terrorist threat (which can mean any sort of dissent, these days) or associated in some way with any group deemed a threat.
Except the rich, you mean.
Who's been prosecuted for the recent banking debacle, or the invasion of Iraq?
. Yet Americans do get "disappeared," there is "special rendition," Obama recently OK'd the assassination of American "terrorists" without trial, Democrats are excluded from Republican speeches and public meetings, &c.
I don't follow. Are these pictured things uniquely American? What do these pictures have to do with foreign or domestic policy?
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