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Originally Posted by Barkingturtle
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First off, Compton isn't really a state. It's a state of mind.
Second, what's with the rampant defeatism? So because we have a bigger job to do than Norway, it's just impossible? But I thought we were vastly more powerful and wealthy than any other nation on the globe? I thought we were the most ingenuous people on the planet?
We're not. You know it, that's why you defend this status quo as tolerable if not palatable.
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You're setting up a ridiculous straw man. Nobody in this thread has labeled Americans as the most ingenious people on the planet -- not by a long shot. Personally, I said the US is the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet. Making any judgment about the quality of the citizenry is external to that fact.
But Norway's success as a nation of 5,000,000 is only slightly more relevant than the successes of Israeli kibbutzim when discussing communism. Scale means everything.