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What kind of country is the USA now?

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This is not about the election and I've been posting pieces of this.

1. More socialist and communist actions than any other country in the world.
The government seized control of all rental property, seizing those houses and other residences for free housing. Seizing private property is what socialist and communist countries do, but what the USA IS doing is worse. While losing use of their own land and house, the government still required the owner to labor for free for the government free housing welfare by requiring the owner to pay the mortgage, make all repairs like it or not, and pay the property taxes. No socialist or communist country both seizes private land and then requires the prior owners to keep paying on and maintaining the property.

2. Totalitarianism
Without any legislative or city council action, 25,000 local, county and state executive officers can claim total power over anyone and everyone's life:
a) the can order any business illegal and on behalf of competing businesses
b.) take total control of people's movement and activities
c.) summarily order anyone and everyone unemployed
d.) take total control of a person's health decisions
e.) order anyone and everyone under indefinite house arrest

3. War
The United States is so casual and flippant about warfare against and indefinite military occupation of foreign countries that it wasn't even a topic in the elections.

4. Criminal Justice and Rights
a.) the right to bond is non-existence for 90%+ of people arrested for major crimes
b.) the government can seize an defendant's attorney's notes and files
c.) people with no criminal record are punished prior to trial by torturous solitary confinement
d.) defendants are ordered they may not communicate with any potential witnesses to prevent preparing a defense
e.) in real terms the right to a speedy trial does not exist

Equality
a.) enforcement of criminal laws is largely based upon partisanship and political considerations in most major cities
b.) the government evaluates people based upon their race

Free press
a.) There is no free press in the USA. All television stations, newspapers and Internet news sources are owned by a few of the richest corporations on earth, used solely for propaganda
b.) Censorship of political adversaries or anything contrary to the profits and goals of the richest people and corporations on earth is banned and censored.

Economy
a.) The country's infrastructure is likely the worst - by far - in the industrial world, but despite this the country is spending trillions of more dollars it doesn't have at a rate unknown in world history
b.) Virtually all American industry is gone to the point the USA is dependent upon China even for military materials and our voting computers - the USA unable to even make paper masks for months
c.) No business and no person knows if the government will destroy their job or business tomorrow or not - which any of over 25,000 executive officers can do
d.) the richest people and corporations on earth pay no taxes
e.) increasingly, the bulk of USA wealth - and growing fast - is in the hands of the largest monopolies in world history
f.) the tax code is written so the wealthiest people and corporations pay no taxes - in fact the government/working people pay them

So the USA is still the greatest nation on earth now because ___________________________________?
 
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I don't see how people have come to one simple conclusion on your list because it is a combination of concerns. And those concerns vary drastically- that don't align with any one political ideology, if you will.

I'm 100% with you on the war issue.

I agree with some or most of the corporate takeover and wealth issues.

I agree with some of the criminal justice issues.

Most of the communist, socialist, totalitarian stuff seems overblown and under-explained.
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The "You're in Russia" stuff seems ridiculous.

The "Why do you hate the country?" stuff is ridiculous.
 
It sounds like you are describing a shit-hole.
 
It certainly is not like the crap you posted. Why do you hate this nation so much?

Maybe you can talk to someone who could help you construct an intelligent comment.
 
hate is the core tenant of Trumnpism.
Maybe you and prometeus could consult with an educated person to help construct an intelligent response.
 
Source?

If not, then you must be enjoying the weather in Moscow...

Maybe you, prometeus and noonereal could talk to some official with the Chinese Communist Party in your Beijing office to TRY to construct an intelligent response.
 
Maybe you can talk to someone who could help you construct an intelligent comment.
How would you know the difference? The post was at the level you post so you could understand it. Clearly that was too much to hope for.
 
This is not about the election and I've been posting pieces of this.

1. More socialist and communist actions than any other country in the world.
The government seized control of all rental property, seizing those houses and other residences for free housing. Seizing private property is what socialist and communist countries do, but what the USA IS doing is worse. While losing use of their own land and house, the government still required the owner to labor for free for the government free housing welfare by requiring the owner to pay the mortgage, make all repairs like it or not, and pay the property taxes. No socialist or communist country both seizes private land and then requires the prior owners to keep paying on and maintaining the property.

2. Totalitarianism
Without any legislative or city council action, 25,000 local, county and state executive officers can claim total power over anyone and everyone's life:
a) the can order any business illegal and on behalf of competing businesses
b.) take total control of people's movement and activities
c.) summarily order anyone and everyone unemployed
d.) take total control of a person's health decisions
e.) order anyone and everyone under indefinite house arrest

3. War
The United States is so casual and flippant about warfare against and indefinite military occupation of foreign countries that it wasn't even a topic in the elections.

4. Criminal Justice and Rights
a.) the right to bond is non-existence for 90%+ of people arrested for major crimes
b.) the government can seize an defendant's attorney's notes and files
c.) people with no criminal record are punished prior to trial by torturous solitary confinement
d.) defendants are ordered they may not communicate with any potential witnesses to prevent preparing a defense
e.) in real terms the right to a speedy trial does not exist

Equality
a.) enforcement of criminal laws is largely based upon partisanship and political considerations in most major cities
b.) the government evaluates people based upon their race

Free press
a.) There is no free press in the USA. All television stations, newspapers and Internet news sources are owned by a few of the richest corporations on earth, used solely for propaganda
b.) Censorship of political adversaries or anything contrary to the profits and goals of the richest people and corporations on earth is banned and censored.

Economy
a.) The country's infrastructure is likely the worst - by far - in the industrial world, but despite this the country is spending trillions of more dollars it doesn't have at a rate unknown in world history
b.) Virtually all American industry is gone to the point the USA is dependent upon China even for military materials and our voting computers - the USA unable to even make paper masks for months
c.) No business and no person knows if the government will destroy their job or business tomorrow or not - which any of over 25,000 executive officers can do
d.) the richest people and corporations on earth pay no taxes
e.) increasingly, the bulk of USA wealth - and growing fast - is in the hands of the largest monopolies in world history
f.) the tax code is written so the wealthiest people and corporations pay no taxes - in fact the government/working people pay them

So the USA is still the greatest nation on earth now because ___________________________________?
So much hate


Just so much hate
 
A barely functioning country that just ekes by and corruption is rarely ever fought, a country that has an insanely high prison population to feed slave labor to those that profit from it. We delude ourselves into thinking we are really a free country by pointing to the worst cases and shitting on the poor. A country that barely fights for its democracy.
 
We are the country we are, elections have consequences and like a pendulum, there is always a tendency to go too far and then the other party takes over and again goes too far.
 
This is not about the election and I've been posting pieces of this.

1. More socialist and communist actions than any other country in the world.
The government seized control of all rental property, seizing those houses and other residences for free housing. Seizing private property is what socialist and communist countries do, but what the USA IS doing is worse. While losing use of their own land and house, the government still required the owner to labor for free for the government free housing welfare by requiring the owner to pay the mortgage, make all repairs like it or not, and pay the property taxes. No socialist or communist country both seizes private land and then requires the prior owners to keep paying on and maintaining the property.

2. Totalitarianism
Without any legislative or city council action, 25,000 local, county and state executive officers can claim total power over anyone and everyone's life:
a) the can order any business illegal and on behalf of competing businesses
b.) take total control of people's movement and activities
c.) summarily order anyone and everyone unemployed
d.) take total control of a person's health decisions
e.) order anyone and everyone under indefinite house arrest

3. War
The United States is so casual and flippant about warfare against and indefinite military occupation of foreign countries that it wasn't even a topic in the elections.

4. Criminal Justice and Rights
a.) the right to bond is non-existence for 90%+ of people arrested for major crimes
b.) the government can seize an defendant's attorney's notes and files
c.) people with no criminal record are punished prior to trial by torturous solitary confinement
d.) defendants are ordered they may not communicate with any potential witnesses to prevent preparing a defense
e.) in real terms the right to a speedy trial does not exist

Equality
a.) enforcement of criminal laws is largely based upon partisanship and political considerations in most major cities
b.) the government evaluates people based upon their race

Free press
a.) There is no free press in the USA. All television stations, newspapers and Internet news sources are owned by a few of the richest corporations on earth, used solely for propaganda
b.) Censorship of political adversaries or anything contrary to the profits and goals of the richest people and corporations on earth is banned and censored.

Economy
a.) The country's infrastructure is likely the worst - by far - in the industrial world, but despite this the country is spending trillions of more dollars it doesn't have at a rate unknown in world history
b.) Virtually all American industry is gone to the point the USA is dependent upon China even for military materials and our voting computers - the USA unable to even make paper masks for months
c.) No business and no person knows if the government will destroy their job or business tomorrow or not - which any of over 25,000 executive officers can do
d.) the richest people and corporations on earth pay no taxes
e.) increasingly, the bulk of USA wealth - and growing fast - is in the hands of the largest monopolies in world history
f.) the tax code is written so the wealthiest people and corporations pay no taxes - in fact the government/working people pay them

So the USA is still the greatest nation on earth now because ___________________________________?

So why weren’t you posting this while Trump was president? Even if true, are these new developments just the last few months?
 
So why weren’t you posting this while Trump was president? Even if true, are these new developments just the last few months?

I have. During Obama. During Trump. Now. It just keeps getting worse.
 
It's also, generally, a pretty country.
 
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