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What is the matter with America?
Al Arabiya ^ | July 26, 2015 | Hisham Melhem

Posted on 07/26/2015 5:23:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Yeah, why can't we be more like Lebanon or Syria? Oh, wait...
1 posted on 07/26/2015 5:23:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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We ceased being good ...

and refuse to go back to the source ...

that taught us

2 posted on 07/26/2015 5:27:55 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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....must be that Trump is on target...Flack from all over.


3 posted on 07/26/2015 5:28:10 AM PDT by spokeshave (If an illegal alien is undocumented immigrant a drug dealer is an unlicensed pharmacist)
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“What Is The Matter With America?”

A translation of this article can be purchased from the Nuance Translation and Double-Meaning Word Definition Departments of the Democrat Party.

IMHO


4 posted on 07/26/2015 5:38:54 AM PDT by ripley
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We ceased being good ... and refuse to go back to the source ... that taught us

Capitalism? Milton Friedman? Ayn Rand? Ludwig von Mises? Friedrich Hayek?

5 posted on 07/26/2015 5:50:48 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (We have had enough of immorality and the mockery of ethics, goodness, faith and honesty.)
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Corrupt, incompetent and un-American politicians, a worthless media and a poorly educated citizenry. What would one expect from a group like that? One big mess.


6 posted on 07/26/2015 5:52:39 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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Oooooo,Mr. Cotter, I have the answer! Democrats!


7 posted on 07/26/2015 5:55:08 AM PDT by txrefugee
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What is the matter with America?
One word - Liberals. Period.
8 posted on 07/26/2015 6:07:55 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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In 2004, American journalist and historian Thomas Frank published a book entitled ‘What is the matter with Kansas? How conservatives won the heart of America’, in which he explored the reasons why so many citizens vote against their own economic and political interests.

Actually, his "book" is more or less a straight-up plagiarism of Lenin's "What is to be Done?" (1902).

Communists always have the problem of explaining WHY the people whose interests they champion are never ready to take up arms to put them in power, why, in fact, the workers (those who actually produce anything) are mostly anti-communist.

Lenin's explanation is, more or less, the intellectual foundation for every leftist entity in this country, which is that Lenin (and of course Thomas Frank) knows better what the interests of a bunch of stupid farmers in Kansas are than they do themselves.

9 posted on 07/26/2015 6:20:20 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain)
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According to the person who wrote this article, he thinks America is too conservative and right wing. Kid you not.


10 posted on 07/26/2015 6:21:12 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

God through His Word, The Bible


11 posted on 07/26/2015 6:22:10 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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When Kanye West can say with a straight face, “Bruce Jenner is my mother-in-law”, you know we’re screwed up...


12 posted on 07/26/2015 6:22:56 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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Thx ... glad I didn’t waste my time reading it.


13 posted on 07/26/2015 6:28:03 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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The author is a hard-core Bolshevik propagandist. The article is full frontal Bolshevik propaganda.

Just my opinions, of course.


14 posted on 07/26/2015 6:32:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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What is happening is that American companies have sold out our own employment base.

Nearly 100,000,000 Americans now are not working. We import EVERYTHING it seems, from the world’s largest communist country.

We are running a massive, record, and increasing trade deficit with a country which now has the second-largest military budget on our planet, and is rapidly growing.

We are now over 18,000,000,000,000 dollars in debt.

We have borders, which aren’t.

Our immigration system, is completely broken.

Everything about America is currently backwards.

All of this has happened in just the last generation. The only person saying what needs to be done, is Donald Trump.

He’s it.


15 posted on 07/26/2015 6:37:42 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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16 posted on 07/26/2015 6:41:00 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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What is the matter with America?

Nothing, except it is run by idiots, morons, incompetents, slackers, liars, and overall self promoting sh!theads. Other than that, everything is fine.

17 posted on 07/26/2015 7:16:56 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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Yep, liberals love the Kansas book. It’s one of their touchstones. They think it has huge explanatory power. It was written 11 years ago yet you’ll see them citing it all the time and using it as a jumping off point like the writer of the posted article does. In general, you can count on educated, politically aware liberals having read two (and usually only two) books: What’s Wrong With Kansas? and Al Franken’s Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.


18 posted on 07/26/2015 7:19:23 AM PDT by Yardstick
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One word - Liberals. Period.

That's two words.

19 posted on 07/26/2015 8:23:31 AM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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What is the matter with America?

WHY?

20 posted on 07/26/2015 8:25:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("In a very short period of time, these will be the good old days." -- unknown Freeper, 2015)
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