Are there any good things about the US now?

Hell yes there is plenty of good, don't be such a big pissy baby.

Corn? When did I eat corn, OP???

Tell us some of the good things R1. What are they?

Love is all you need.

No. But many of us have known this for years (at least 10) so we have practiced.

OP I feel you. Find joy in your family and loved ones.

Write your own term paper!

Yes, OP but they're not happening online or in any other media

8 posts and nobody has listed even one good thing...

I just think Trump got a lot of trashy white people who don’t typically vote, to actually vote. And when our side has a candidate that isn’t short of Jesus, people stay home and all those trashy whites are enough to counter especially when you have 25% of clueless blacks males and Latinos helping them.

^ Actually it was 55% of Latino males who voted, voted for Trump.

I like our interstate road system and hotels. When I need to feel good I see where I can afford to go and hit the road in my van. In the last few years I’ve driven to Alaska, Louisiana, California many times, Roswell, Vermont, Chicago, Seattle, across the Great Plains, to upstate New York, to Albuquerque for the Gathering of Nations powwow,. I saw more trucks in ditches when west Texas iced over than I could believe.

I’ve seen Niagara Falls, Mardi Gras in Shreveport, Devil’s Tower, the signs on the fences around Area 51 that say they are authorized to use deadly force, geysers, a 27-mile-long bridge over Lake Pontchartrain, the atomic test bomb site on the White Sands missile range, the house Oppenheimer lived in in Los Alamos, the Timberline lodge on Mount Hood.

I was never assaulted. Everyone spoke my language. Thanks entirely to my phone I was never profoundly lost. Mostly just disoriented.

Our national parks are wonders of the world.

I’m lonely almost all the time but that’s the result of choices I’ve made and happenstances I can’t change.

I don’t know if any of this translates to others’ lives, but I know this country has been good to me.

There are many good things about America but Trump is not one of them. May he die soon.

There has never been anything good about the US.

But there has never been anything good about anyplace.

Existence itself is skewed towards evil. Eat or be eaten. Humankind is intrinsically flawed.

There are some warm moments from the less damaged: music, dance, the sharing of meals.

But although I don't believe in God, I do believe in original sin.

There is no heaven.

But there may be hell.

We build it, all of us, time after time.

I've left the US twice - first time for 8 years, this time about 4 years with no intention of returning back. I can't stand living there for a wide range of reasons...most of all because the few appealing blue pockets of the country are totally unaffordable for me. But I still appreciate all the smart, funny, cultured, talented people produced in the US, especially those who are committed to keep fighting against MAGA. I still love a lot of US pop culture, even though much of it has been dumbed down. I appreciate the diversity of the big cities, but who knows what it will be like after 4 more years of Orange Hitler.

Yes, me. I can smell bullshit a mile away and will share i.

The Internet has changed the world in good ways as well as bad. It's so easy to solve your problems by online study, when before you had to go to great effort to find the books, the research papers, etc., and even then, much was out of date but how would you know that?

Now, so much data is at your fingertips that you can solve many of your own problems that wouldn't have been possible before. And in the US, the Internet is available to more people than ever.

For disabled or elderly, there are resources that didn't exist 100 or even 50 years ago, a blip in the history of time. Home health, either through Medicaid or for pay at $30 an hour or so - delivery services available in many more places than before the pandemic - uber eats, grocery deliveries, instacart, etc.

There's access to entertainment, not just the two or three networks like before, but from all over the world - from the past, as well. Same with music, books, just about anything you can think of.

There are medical breakthroughs as well - and you can research that for yourself, online, and you can access psychiatrists online - specialized ones for your particular problems, when 100, even 50 years ago, you were just stuck with whatever paltry and expensive psychologists or whatever nearby.

I could go on... The world is a wonderland, in a way, in ways it never was before - and couldn't even have been imagined before. I'm so happy that I lived long enough to see it and benefit from it!

we have plastic fly swatters with red dots in the middle