Re: anti-americans
Quite so, Avro, I have already commented on this before. At one point, USA was indeed a great country, the world used to look to USA for leadership, in social, economic and military issues.
USA has been on the vanguard of human rights movement. The civil rights movement originated there in the 60s. So did the feminist movement and gay rights movement. Compared to USA, Canada consistently used to lag behind when it came to human rights or minority rights. Thus USA legalized abortion in 1973, long after that Canada was still imprisoning doctors for performing abortions.
I think all that started to change with the election of Reagan. Especially Republican Party started its inexorable march to the right. Today Republican party is much more right wing than it was during Reagan’s times. Indeed, Reagan will be kicked out of Republican Party today, as a RINO (Republican In Name Only).
While other countries continued the slow but steady march to more progressive, more liberal, more tolerant society, in USA things kept going backward. These days USA is just about the most conservative country in the developed world.
These days USA is known for its right wing policies, its crusade against minority rights, as being the only developed world to practice death penalty etc. Nobody looks to USA for leadership any more. A once great country is these days regressing going backwards.
Quite so, Avro, I have already commented on this before. At one point, USA was indeed a great country, the world used to look to USA for leadership, in social, economic and military issues.
USA has been on the vanguard of human rights movement. The civil rights movement originated there in the 60s. So did the feminist movement and gay rights movement. Compared to USA, Canada consistently used to lag behind when it came to human rights or minority rights. Thus USA legalized abortion in 1973, long after that Canada was still imprisoning doctors for performing abortions.
I think all that started to change with the election of Reagan. Especially Republican Party started its inexorable march to the right. Today Republican party is much more right wing than it was during Reagan’s times. Indeed, Reagan will be kicked out of Republican Party today, as a RINO (Republican In Name Only).
While other countries continued the slow but steady march to more progressive, more liberal, more tolerant society, in USA things kept going backward. These days USA is just about the most conservative country in the developed world.
These days USA is known for its right wing policies, its crusade against minority rights, as being the only developed world to practice death penalty etc. Nobody looks to USA for leadership any more. A once great country is these days regressing going backwards.
