Can someone name a country...

[Anonymous]

America died in 2008

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That has successfully implemented the ideals of the U.S. Republican party?

That is, has low taxes, few social services, weak/no labor unions, and yet has high wealth, a healthy middle class, and high innovation?

This is a genuine question, I'm not trying to be sarcastic.

united states 1980 to 2008, RIP

Yes exactly to 2008 when the Republican ideals sent us into the worst depression since the 30s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the people who are insisting that the U.S. is the exception to the rule essentially admitting that they have no examples?

And if this is the case, why should we accept the policies of the last three decades when by the end of 2008, they failed us and our children? Inequality has risen, the middle class is desperate, healthcare is a mess, the debt and deficit are out of control, we're embroiled in a catastrophic war in Afghanistan, unemployment skyrocketed under Bush, and what have we got to show for it? With the confidence that America was going to play world police, Europeans got universal healthcare and good educations. We got screwed. It's time for Republicans to experience a few decades as a minority party and let us catch up with the rest of the world.

Exactly. Get this straight, conservatives - Democrats love this country deeply. But American Exceptionalism is STRAIGHT. UP. BULLSHIT. We are not so special that we get to eschew commonly held principals about economics, government and society. You people have diseased minds, IMO. We - Democrats - want the country to work for the vast majority - not for the lucky few.

I am in love with both of you.

[Anonymous]

So I suppose that the conclusion we have reached on this thread is that there is no state on planet Earth that has successfully implemented Republican policies. America isn't the "exception", because these policies have not succeeded here either.

[Anonymous]

Reading this thread I now understand why the world thinks Americans are stupid. Have at of you travelled?

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*any

[Anonymous]

While Americans were being the world police, Canada paid off their debt. Now Canada's $ is worth more. It literally went from .67 to over $1.00

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I suppose that the conclusion we have reached on this thread is that there is no state on planet Earth that has successfully implemented Republican policies. America isn't the "exception", because these policies have not succeeded here either.

Well there is the fictional world of Ayn Rand. Where "producers" leave the world, which immediately collapses and is only restored after every miserable soul begs them to return. It's about as realistic a plot as Starship Troopers. And oddly it is most often enjoyed by mediocre working schlubs who do not realize that they in fact are not actually producers but who think they are "special".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:America died in 2008

I assume you mean in September/October of 2008 when the market collapsed and everything was going to crap?

[Anonymous]

no. No one can name a country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That has successfully implemented the ideals of the U.S. Republican party?

That is, has low taxes, few social services, weak/no labor unions, and yet has high wealth, a healthy middle class, and high innovation?

This is a genuine question, I'm not trying to be sarcastic.

united states 1980 to 2008, RIP

We are the country. And no, we are not self-deporting. We will regear for 20016. We fight, get beat, rise up and fight again--Nathaneal Greene. Thank god for our American democracy.

Yes PP!! AU Park will rise up!! God Bless America!!

LOL! Yes, give it up for 20016!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the people who are insisting that the U.S. is the exception to the rule essentially admitting that they have no examples?

And if this is the case, why should we accept the policies of the last three decades when by the end of 2008, they failed us and our children? Inequality has risen, the middle class is desperate, healthcare is a mess, the debt and deficit are out of control, we're embroiled in a catastrophic war in Afghanistan, unemployment skyrocketed under Bush, and what have we got to show for it? With the confidence that America was going to play world police, Europeans got universal healthcare and good educations. We got screwed. It's time for Republicans to experience a few decades as a minority party and let us catch up with the rest of the world.

Exactly. Get this straight, conservatives - Democrats love this country deeply. But American Exceptionalism is STRAIGHT. UP. BULLSHIT. We are not so special that we get to eschew commonly held principals about economics, government and society. You people have diseased minds, IMO. We - Democrats - want the country to work for the vast majority - not for the lucky few.

I am in love with both of you.

Me too.

[Anonymous]

But American Exceptionalism is STRAIGHT. UP. BULLSHIT

Yes. Right! Goodbye and so long to those Menshevik troglodyte republicans with their Tea Party and Ayn Rand. We are now we are in the age of Democrat exceptionalism.

Utopia is right around the corner. I can see it just over the horizon. The next 4 years are going to be so much fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

But American Exceptionalism is STRAIGHT. UP. BULLSHIT

Yes. Right! Goodbye and so long to those Menshevik troglodyte republicans with their Tea Party and Ayn Rand. We are now we are in the age of Democrat exceptionalism.

Utopia is right around the corner. I can see it just over the horizon. The next 4 years are going to be so much fun.

How is wanting to do what works in other countries exceptionalism?

You guys can't even be sarcastic without screwing it up. No wonder the right doesn't have any good satirists. But good try all the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I suppose that the conclusion we have reached on this thread is that there is no state on planet Earth that has successfully implemented Republican policies. America isn't the "exception", because these policies have not succeeded here either.

What we have discovered is that people can't read!

SINGAPORE
HONG KONG

Been mentioned twice... Guess you wanted to prove it wasn't possible but it is!