I'm not talking about 'our nation is something to be proud of' more generally, but specifically, major government actions to be proud of, like 'putting a man on the moon', or 'Social Security', or the examples above.
How many stand out as created or greatly improved this century?
We have probably been in decline since the early 80s, so you got me there.
I'll add that as the third. But NPR: "In 2003 George W. Bush set up the global health initiative PEPFAR in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Over the last couple of decades, it's saved millions of lives for relatively little money. But cuts under the Trump administration have gutted the program. An estimated 70,000 people have died already due to the cutbacks"PEPFAR’s Profound Legacy 20 Years On
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR), the George W. Bush administration’s landmark global health initiative. When Bush announced the initiative during his 2003 State of the Union address, approximately 30 million Africans were infected...www.usip.org
In most nations women make up a majority, not a minority. Where they are a minority, it is only by the slightest of margins.
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Good point. And I actually quite agree on the second point as well - I have said the same. I think one "big mistake" in Europe has been to cling too long to a kind of "noble savage" myth - that "they" are kind of "more innocent and virtuous though less smart or complicated people than "us", which also makes it harder to attain very top positions in a country. Gender issues was already mentioned - I think there US has more to do than Europe.
Nobody else was stupid enough to try it….and fail, as Trump did.
Don't be ridiculous. Trump didn't fail.
He absolutely did, as the leaked DIA report shows.
That report has already been debunked.
A leaked report has significantly more credibility than the statements of someone like Pete Hegseth
