I see things like this now and again, always saying something like "if we're the greatest country in the world..."pic.twitter.com/Brja9MvNI5
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I see things like this now and again, always saying something like "if we're the greatest country in the world..."pic.twitter.com/Brja9MvNI5
Really terrible bit of rhetoric; there are two possibilities: 1) the greatest country in the world wouldn't do (xyz)
2) we aren't the greatest country in the world, ergo can't be expected to do (xyz)
This is easy to avoid: don't appeal to American greatness in the same breath that you're castigating American failure
well there's a third possibility: "since you are committed to American greatness, do not allow America to fall behind here"
doesn't work if America is already "the greatest country;" but if appeal made to American creativity, optimism, industry instead...
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