Why America Is Not The Greatest Country in World

The speaker argues that America is not the greatest country in the world by presenting statistics showing the US ranks low compared to other developed countries in various metrics like education, health, and quality of life. While the US leads in defense spending and rates of incarceration, it no longer stands up for moral reasons or aspires to greatness like it once did. The speaker attributes this decline to the current generation being misinformed and easily scared rather than informed by great leaders of the past.

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...It's NOT the greatest country in the world, Professor. That's my answer.

Fine. Sharon, the NEA is a loser. Yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paycheck, but he gets to hit you
with it anytime he wants. It doesn't cost money. It costs votes. It costs airtime. And column inches. You
know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so fuckin' smart then how come
they lose so goddamn always?
And with a straight face, you're gonna sit there and tell students that America is so star-spangled
awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom. Japan has
freedom. The U.K. France. Italy. Germany. Spain. Australia. BELGIUM has freedom. Two hundred and
seven sovereign states in the world, like, a hundred and eighty of them have freedom.
...And you, Sorority Girl, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there's some
things you should know. One of them is there's absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're
the greatest country in the world. We're seventh in literacy. Twenty-seventh in math. Twenty-second in
science. Forty-ninth in life expectancy. A hundred and seventy-eighth in infant mortality. Third in median
household income. Number four in labor force and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three
categories: Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and
defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of
whom are allies.
Now none of this is the fault of a twenty-year-old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt
a member of the worst, period, generation, period, ever, period. So when you ask what makes us the
greatest country in the world, I dunno what the fuck you're talkin' about. Yosemite?
Sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons. We passed laws, struck
down laws, for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed. We cared
about our neighbors. We put our money where our mouths were. And we never beat our chest.
We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases,
and we cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars.
Acted like men.
We aspired to intelligence. We didn't belittle it, it didn't make us feel inferior.
We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't, oh, we didn't scare so
easy. Ha. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great
men. Men who were revered. First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not
the greatest country in the world anymore. Enough?"