Is the United States really a developed country?

[TH3-D0S3R]

thismeintiel said:

TH3-D0S3R said:
How ironic it is whenever our weaknesses are brought up (i.e. healthcare and education) people think it's the government's responsibility to take the reigns and control the issue. However, these same people also believe that the government is always corrupt and shouldn't be allowed to touch anything.

As an American myself, this hypocrisy is why I think America gets a bad rep. No one knows what they actually want, and when they think they get something good, they praise it, until it ends up backfiring and then they start complaining again. I have a general distrust of the government, and as such I praise drawbacks on government mandated healthcare and tax cuts, mostly because that is government backing up and getting out of my business.

Yea, I have never understood this hypocritical thinking by so many.

"All politicians are corrupt...Hey, I got a great idea! We should let them be in charge of every aspect of our lives! What could go wrong?"

Or one of my favorites, "Man, that law just screwed up something that wasn't really broken to begin with. Hey, government, pass another law to try to fix the first one. Oh, it just made matters worse? That's OK. Just keep passing them til you get it right."

Well most Americans don't have a basic understanding of what our government actually is. I always get pissed off whenever a citizen says we have to uphold our democracy 'for the sake of the people (yuck)', when in reality America is not a democracy. America is a Representative Republic that holds Democratically run elections based on representation to elect its leaders. We at best vote for maybe 25% of our actual laws, and that's a REALLY high estimate. Most of these laws are just changes to state constitution material, such as legalizing weed. However, an overwhelming majority of laws are done in state legislatures, such as the travel bans California enacts on states they don't happen to agree with politically.

I literally retorted this back to my college professor because she had America labeled as a democracy, and after receiving more outrage from students than herself, she ended up agreeing with me after 5 minutes. Literally ask any American what they think they're government is classified as, and I can assure you about 80% of the population will get it wrong.

Since Americans know so little about what they're actually talking about, the more faith they put in their leaders, that way they don't have to worry about it themselves. But then they also bitch about when something bad happens that they didn't want which means the government is evil somehow? I don't trust in the government myself but I have never understood the rationale of these types of people. They literally complain about events THEY caused purposefully.