00:00Hi, my name is Jenny, I'm a sophomore, and this is for all three of you.
00:04Can you say in one sentence or less why...
00:09Um, you know what I mean.
00:11Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?
00:16Diversity and opportunity.
00:19Lewis?
00:20Uh, freedom and freedom. So let's keep it that way.
00:25Will?
00:27The New York Jets.
00:32No, I'm going to hold you to an answer on that.
00:35What makes America the greatest country in the world?
00:41Well, Lewis and Sharon said it.
00:43Diversity and opportunity and freedom and freedom.
00:56I'm not letting you go back to the airport without answering the question.
01:10Well, our Constitution is a masterpiece. James Madison was a genius.
01:14The Declaration of Independence is, for me, the single greatest piece of American writing.
01:22You don't look satisfied.
01:25One's a set of laws and the other's a declaration of war. I want a human moment from you.
01:34What about the people?
01:36Why is America...
01:37Not the greatest country in the world, Professor. That's my answer.
01:43You're saying...
01:44Yes.
01:46Let's talk about...
01:47Look, Sharon, the NEA is a loser. Yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paycheck, but he gets
01:52to hit you with it any time he wants.
01:53It doesn't cost money. It costs votes. It costs air time and column inches.
01:57You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose.
01:59If liberals are so fucking smart, I come, they lose so goddamn always.
02:03Hey.
02:03And with a straight face, you're going to tell students that America is so star-spangled awesome that we're the
02:09only ones in the world who have freedom?
02:10Canada has freedom. Japan has freedom.
02:13The UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom.
02:19So, 207 sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.
02:22All right.
02:23And yeah, you, sorority girl, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there's some things
02:28you should know.
02:28And one of them is, there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in
02:33the world.
02:33We're 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in
02:42median household income,
02:43number 4 in labor force, and number 4 in exports.
02:45We lead the world in only three categories.
02:48Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real,
02:52and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies.
02:57Now, none of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you, nonetheless, are, without a
03:01doubt,
03:01a member of the worst period generation period ever period.
03:05So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the fuck you're
03:09talking about.
03:11Yosemite?
03:24Sure used to be.
03:27We stood up for what was right.
03:30We fought for moral reasons.
03:32We passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons.
03:35We waged wars on poverty, not poor people.
03:38We sacrificed.
03:40We cared about our neighbors.
03:41We put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest.
03:44We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases,
03:51and we cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy.
03:59We reached for the stars.
04:03Acted like men.
04:04We aspired to intelligence.
04:06We didn't belittle it.
04:07It didn't make us feel inferior.
04:10We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election,
04:13and we didn't scare so easy.
04:21We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed
04:26by great men, men who were revered.
04:31First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one.
04:37America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
04:46I'm not.
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