An open letter to certain parties...

[conuly]

"Greatest country in the world" is a meaningless statement until and unless you give some sort of metric. In what way is this the "greatest" country? What, exactly, are you measuring here? That's not sarcasm - or, at least, it doesn't have to be. Just give me something to work with here!

(I've tried actually asking people individually, but I've never gotten anything constructive out of them. I think they don't know what they mean either.)

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[peristaltor]

People who say that are literally simple minded. Not unintelligent per se; just unable to handle an overload of executive, non-heuristic brain work. If you try to challenge the very existence of a definition, their minds get full and they get cranky.

John Wayne was one such "thinker." When told that he couldn't just divide the world into black and white, good and bad, divine and evil, and the like, he said, "Why the hell not?"