Is it our politics/democracy that made the U.S. the greatest nation the world has ever known?

[BrokeLoser]

OR is it one of the following:
Our economic system
Our constitution
Our people

If you had to choose just one of the aforementioned which would you say made the U.S. the greatest nation on earth?

 

[BS Filter]

Lefties claim slavery built this great nation. If that's true, then let's bring slavery back and make America great again.

 

[MarcATL]

The constitution, when it's actually applied.

We still have a long way to go in that respect, but w/much fighting, we'll get there.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

The problem with the "Great Experiment in Freedom" is that it also gave freedom to people who do not want it and devote themselves to defeating it.

Blacks introduced slavery to America, and blacks in Africa enjoyed wealth from participating in selling their neighbors.
(See Anthony Johnson)

A former indentured servant himself, Anthony Johnson was a “free negro” who owned a 250-acre farm in Virginia during the 1650s, with five indentured servants under contract to him. One of them, a black man named John Casor, claimed that his term of service had expired years earlier and Johnson was holding him illegally. In 1654, a civil court found that Johnson in fact owned Casor’s services for life, an outcome historian R Halliburton Jr. calls “one of the first known legal sanctions of slavery — other than as a punishment for crime.”

North Carolina’s largest slave holder in 1860 was a black plantation owner named William Ellison.

 

[Hellbilly]

Lefties claim slavery built this great nation. If that's true, then let's bring slavery back and make America great again.

What was the purpose of slavery in your opinion?

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

The constitution, when it's actually applied.

We still have a long way to go in that respect, but w/much fighting, we'll get there.

Blacks introduced slavery to America, and blacks in Africa enjoyed wealth from participating in selling their neighbors.
(See Anthony Johnson)

A former indentured servant himself, Anthony Johnson was a “free negro” who owned a 250-acre farm in Virginia during the 1650s, with five indentured servants under contract to him. One of them, a black man named John Casor, claimed that his term of service had expired years earlier and Johnson was holding him illegally. In 1654, a civil court found that Johnson in fact owned Casor’s services for life, an outcome historian R Halliburton Jr. calls “one of the first known legal sanctions of slavery — other than as a punishment for crime.”

North Carolina’s largest slave holder in 1860 was a black plantation owner named William Ellison.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

 

[Toro]

OR is it one of the following:
Our economic system
Our constitution
Our people

If you had to choose just one of the aforementioned which would you say made the U.S. the greatest nation on earth?

Why not all of them?

They're not mutually exclusive.

 

[norwegen]

OR is it one of the following:
Our economic system
Our constitution
Our people

If you had to choose just one of the aforementioned which would you say made the U.S. the greatest nation on earth?

Democracy had nothing to do with America’s greatness. The great debate among colonial Americans was either to adopt something like the English monarchical constitution or republicanism.

Ben Franklin wasn’t the only one who questioned the ability of the Americans to sustain a republican polity. Although Franklin preferred a republic over a monarchy, some colonists feared a dreadful anarchy resulting from republicanism. Factional and internal struggles, they predicted, at the very least would devolve into “commercial chaos and agrarian laws limiting the possession of property,” according to pamphleteer Charles Inglis.

Well, lo and behold, America went republican and prospered, but then as expected, especially after the Progressive Era, faction and intrusive regulation began to tear it apart.

A popular government from the beginning never would have allowed for greatness.

 

[Norman]

OR is it one of the following:
Our economic system
Our constitution
Our people

If you had to choose just one of the aforementioned which would you say made the U.S. the greatest nation on earth?

Our democracy is limited by law of the land - the constitution. In America it is illegal to vote yourself other people's shit.

But that does not stop democrats from doing so anyway. We should have never allowed so many people to vote since the representatives do not abide by the law of the land.

 

[BrokeLoser]

OR is it one of the following:
Our economic system
Our constitution
Our people

If you had to choose just one of the aforementioned which would you say made the U.S. the greatest nation on earth?

Why not all of them?

They're not mutually exclusive.

Does anybody find it odd that Democrats seek to CHANGE our Democracy, our economic system, our constitution and our people? Hmmmmm?

 

[Flash]

Capitlism made this country great. Socialism will destroy it like it always has done to other nations.

 

[danielpalos]

OR is it one of the following:
Our economic system
Our constitution
Our people

If you had to choose just one of the aforementioned which would you say made the U.S. the greatest nation on earth?

Our Constitution. Our Founding Fathers really did that most excellent of a job.

 

[Coyote]

OR is it one of the following:
Our economic system
Our constitution
Our people

If you had to choose just one of the aforementioned which would you say made the U.S. the greatest nation on earth?

If only one thing...I'd say it's our Constitution. It's lasted over 200 years now. Look at countries that can change theirs at the whim of a dictator.

 

[Brain357]

Great question. I couldn’t pick just one.

 

[Trickster]

What made USA the greatest country on Earth was the ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence. The Enlightenment values of freedom and individualism allowed each and every individual to actualise their fullest potential and thanks to free trade and a pro-market culture, individuals could increase their wealth as well.

However, this is all in past tense. It has now been many years since America too became a Statist and Collectivist hellhole much like the rest of the West.

 

[Trickster]

Lefties claim slavery built this great nation. If that's true, then let's bring slavery back and make America great again.

Yes, ironically that is the implication of that idiotic statement - When they claim slavery built America, they are actually saying slavery is good and a suficient way of organising the economy. Of course, these people are too dumb to realise this as they are completely out of touch with reality and fully lack the capacity to conceptualise their perceptions.

 

[MarcATL]

Yes, ironically that is the implication of that idiotic statement - When they claim slavery built America, they are actually saying slavery is good and a suficient way of organising the economy. Of course, these people are too dumb to realise this as they are completely out of touch with reality and fully lack the capacity to conceptualise their perceptions.

This is a nonsensical statement.

Utter stupidity and ignorance on full display.

 

[BrokeLoser]

OR is it one of the following:
Our economic system
Our constitution
Our people

If you had to choose just one of the aforementioned which would you say made the U.S. the greatest nation on earth?

If only one thing...I'd say it's our Constitution. It's lasted over 200 years now. Look at countries that can change theirs at the whim of a dictator.

Do you find it odd that Democrats seek to CHANGE our Democracy, our economic system, our constitution and our people?

 

[Coyote]

OR is it one of the following:
Our economic system
Our constitution
Our people

If you had to choose just one of the aforementioned which would you say made the U.S. the greatest nation on earth?

If only one thing...I'd say it's our Constitution. It's lasted over 200 years now. Look at countries that can change theirs at the whim of a dictator.

Do you find it odd that Democrats seek to CHANGE our Democracy, our economic system, our constitution and our people?

No. I don't usually bother with trying to understand Republican lies.