http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/29/1416451/-When-Exactly-was-this-by-gone-Great-America-that-GOPers-yearn-for
It's not just a slogan from Donald Trump, the idea of "Making America Great Again" and "Taking America Back [To something or away from someone]" is something we've been hearing for the entire six years of Barack Hussein Obama's Presidency.
It's the primary theme of the Tea Party and the larger GOP.
They argue that at some point, or possibly several, America was so much better and greater than it is today.
I mean we've only had the unemployment rate drop from 10% in 2009 when Barack Obama took the oath of Office to just 5.3% today. We've seen the Federal Deficit decrease from a height of $1.4 Trillion in 2009, to now just 1/5th of that at $474 Million projected for 2016. Because of Obamacare the health care uninsured rate has droped 6 points to just 11.4%.
The life of the Medicare Trust Fund has been extended, again thanks to Obamacare, by an additional 13 years until 2030. Social Security is fully funded until 2033. America is very nearly Energy Independent of foreign fossil fuels while Renewable Fuels are surging forward projected to take up 2/3rds of the spending on new power plants over the next 25 years.
LGBT individuals can now serve their country without reservations or limits, and can marry the consenting person of their choice. The American Car industry is surging forward after nearly pulling their own death shroud over themselves in 2009. Osama Bin Laden is Dead. Mohamar Quaddafi who masterminded the bombing of Pan Am 103, is Dead.
Tens of thousands of American soldiers are no longer fighting a War in Iraq or in Afghanistan. Relations with Cuba have been re-established. We stand on the verge of a historic nuclear deal with Iran. America is still considered well internationally with a global favorability rating of 69% according to Pew Research which is a 4% improvement from last year. 62% of people around the World Support our efforts against ISIL. 69% of 40 countries surveyed support President Obama.
Not to say everything is totally rosey, it's not, we still have significant problems and challenges ahead of us. Problems with Income Inequality and Upward Mobility, with the quality of our Educational System, with the Militarization of Police and their unwarranted use of force particularly against the mentally ill, poor and persons of color, with the manipulations of our currency and investments by the stock market, China and hedge fund managers without consequence, with Gun Violence, with the VA backlog. Clearly will still have room for massive improvement. Many goals remain unmet.
During all of America's History for each of it's moves forward there have always been continuing nagging failures at the same time.
Still, Conservatives seem to believe there was a time when America really was the "Shining City on the Hill" without blemish and without tarnish. Over the flip I will ask, when exactly the hell was that?
as the article points out there was no rhetoric about taking the country back until we elected the first Black Pres., that somehow translated to or was part of their concentrating on that Blacks are taking over and they have no right in their WH. taking the country back is a misnomer what the words between the lines are put it back under a White president. all the agreeing on the right wing base they don't realize they never had it so good White privilege is not a right it's assigned.
making these statements of greatest country in the world, number one, richest, American exceptionalism none of that is true they are buzz words used by the republicans to create a sense of value lost because a Black Pres. is in the WH and stirs up anger because the base likes the idea of thinking they were all that and a bag of chips pre Obama. please read the list of things that question the greatness we can't really see but the republicans assure us it was there pre Obama.
