What do you criticize America the most for?

Right. This is one of the wonderful things the ACA has brought us - now there are many cases where you can no longer sue your insurance provider, and in many cases you're actually signing away your right to do so when you sign the insurance contract.

And this is mandatory, the federal government is making it mandatory for you to sign away your rights.

To which this conservative replies: no way pal. Homey don't play.

The f*ckers can throw me in jail but they can't make me sign a contract.

 

I criticize people, not countries, but the behavior I despise most is bigotry.

 

same here unless some breaking news is happening, then I tune to cnn

 

Why CNN? ....when Fox is just a couple clicks to the left!

 

I think CNN is the left and FOX is the right, actually. Because CNN is Al Sharpton and FOX is Bill O'Reilly, right?

 

War is never about who is right, it is always about who is left.

Did you guys hear about the conference that was for psychics? It had to close due to unforeseen events.

 

Black immigration. I can't believe that it goes as far as having a black president. And also of course in the mean time because it's the same thing almost, the bad natality rate that is fixed with immigration by the so brilliant free-mason Bertrand here in Montreal.

 

I have to concur here. These notions that 'political compromise' and 'moderate' represent political obscenities is killing this country.

On a separate note. I am most disappointed in how we have thrown away our sense of the importance of civil liberties and basic human rights. I could never imagine that rendition, waterboarding, and enhanced interrogation would ever be the subjects of partisan debate, let alone researched legal briefs describing how to undermine the spirit of the Geneva convention on treatment of captives, reaching all the way through the justice dept, the attorney general, the VP and the Presidents policy directives to the army and intelligence agency. .

 

Lack of compassion. Willful ignorance. Hypocrisy. And passing the buck, always looking for a scapegoat to take the responsibility off our own shoulders.

I could go on...

 

By far i criticize America's left wing the most. Every damn one of their polices are not just terrible but damaging to everyone within their sphere of influence.

They are a threat to all people living within the borders of the United States. And their foreign policy is a threat to the free world.

 

Lobbyism and the influence of money in politics. Not that it wouldn't exist in other countries in the world but if the subject comes up, there isn't a party representing nearly half of the population that defends those practices by calling any criticism socialism and envy of the successful. Money rule the country not the people.

 

I fully disagree.

Every time there's "compromise" in Washington DC, there is PORK attached to it. That's the only way those weasels every compromise, is when they can enrich themselves by doing so.

And furthermore, the center is where all the corruption is. The center is where all the warmongers are. The mushy middle is where no one has any political principles and everyone "compromises" away their destiny.

IMO, what's killing the country is that more people don't wake up and see this.

You are "disappointed"?

That's it? That's all?

That's the extent of your "disappointment"?

Your very freedom is being threatened and you're expressing "disappointment"?

And you were talking about what's wrong with this country?

Hm.

 

I hate America's political culture. I hate America's failed public school system. I could go on and on...

 

Change the channel

 

First of all 'pork' is not about any direct self enrichment but potential district benefit. They do not have a secret $100,000 personal check buried in section 15 A of the bill.
Second, I completely reject the idea that demagogues and hyper partisans have any more integrity or principal because they refuse to compromise. One of a moderate's principles is to try to get something done for the money they are being paid. One of their principles is not to make the 'perfect' the enemy of the good. Another principle is that the mere fact that an idea comes from a political opponent, or an idea benefits the 'other side', does not make it by definition bad for the country. Compromisers and moderates do not entertain litmus tests, absolutes, or obstructionism as matters of conscience. Compromise keeps the legislative from being immobile, paralyzed into being far weaker than the judicial and executive branchs. Right now too much effort and money is going into impacting the regulators in the executive and the judicial branch to get change, and making them more activist, because an activist legislature is a thing of yesteryear and some institution has to be responsive to a majority view and legislate.

If you do not like compromises, you must not think much of the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. All that language and all structure represented compromise by the most partisan and brilliant egos in the continent.

 

If you think the Constitution is about compromise then you have reading comprehension problems.

The law is not about compromise, mister. It's the law.

 

Our citizenry is mostly composed of useless idiots or outright thieves who think nothing of voting themselves more money. People cannot be bothered to know their representatives or vote. People know corporate jingles but cannot name the 5 rights protected by the first amendment. It sickens me.

 

This is public school education. There is no requirement for civics, one ends up learning instead about condoms and bling and gang colors. (While one is being locked down for one's own protection and fed pink slime in the guise of "nutrition").

Remember Frank Zappa? "I am the slime from the video, here comes the slime people, look at me go". He had it nailed forty years ago. The kids these days tune out the government 'cause it's full of liars and cheats, and they tune in the nice stable corporate world they can rely on.

 

What I criticize America most for is the same thing that I appreciate America for: Individual liberties and economic prosperity.
America used to do better at both, but I suppose things have never been perfect

 

Don't you mean loss of those things?

 

Just a diversion away from more serious issues and Americans are taking the bait.

 

If you don't think the Constitution did not involve compromise with respect to both the substance and the language of the document, you need to learn about the constitutional convention, the factions, and the process of acquiring enough votes for each section and the final ratification of the document. If you don't think compromise is involved in the making of all laws, then you are hopelessly undereducated. Its exactly the same push/pull process that creates laws today. Literally hundreds of compromises in almost any bill as it moves towards its final form in the conference committee version that lands on the floor of both houses for final 'Its the law' does not begin to tell the story of how it became one. judicial decisions at the appellate level aslo involve compromise, as justices sent forth different versions of language to see what will get and keep a coalition of justices together to sign a decision that form the basis of their final stamp which defines the scope of the law and its breadth within the parameters of their conclusions about the language in the bill under scrutiny.

 

what makes you think the constitution is so much better than a corporate jingle?

 

Our bickering divided government that spends more time engaging in pissing matches then actually getting things done. Second would be the fact that social conservatism is still a big thing here.

 

That's exactly why I watch my local news channels. You should try that.