New Motto for the United States: “Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay”

Yes, well, I’d like to twist that a bit: I am also a critic of America (though by far not the worst one) and I also prefer to stay… outside the us. I am not American and, at least currently, will avoid entering the country. I’d be treated like a criminal on entry and inside it is not much better (compare a cop stopping you in your car in the USA to, say, Scandinavia to see what I mean).

I think it speaks of our enormous self-esteem problems. Half our population seems to hate it here, and yet they remain. Seattle is one of the least patriotic cities I’ve ever been to, and we don’t have a lot of civic pride neither. It bothers me that I have to defend my country in a conversation with /another inhabitant of my country./ Not only that, but people expect me to join in on their gratuitous America-bashing, just because I’m a gay liberal limey doesn’t mean I don’t love my adopted homeland.

That’s a fantastic motto concisely highlighting what the American experiment has gotten right.

It seems apt to me.

My neighbor who is French complains and complains about America but continues to live here. It pisses my dad off to no end.

Were your hard-working ancestors who immigrated here lazy? Emigrating is about as lazy as putting oneself through college (like I did).

“Proud American” who shows us all what it means to be lazy by reading into what I wrote instead of what I actually wrote. Show me where I am “pissing and moaning.”

“Proud American” assumes that I’m a socialist and then lazily stereotypes all socialists as “stupid” – stupid people like Albert Einstein who wrote an essay entitled “Why Socialism?”

If “Proud American” wasn’t so busy showing off his laziness, he could’ve saved himself some embarrassment and done a web search. (Even George Dumbya Bush knows how to “use the google.”)

Being lazy like “Proud American” is easy because it doesn’t disturb his world view by having to research or think or keep an open mind or to ask questions. Those things are hard and make his head hurt. It’s easier and lazier to throw out a few insults and cliches than to open a dialogue.

Cut a check or STFU.

Yeah, why does someone need $100k to go anywhere?
Sneak into Mexico. You could open up a world of travel possibilities into Central and South America.

You do sound whiny and lazy, though.

But seriously..? People who say that America sucks are usually spoiled, pieces of sh*t that have never been to another country and don’t care about other countries.