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In reply to the discussion: American Brit moved back to London. "Trump is a logical result of your culture." [View all]Aristus
(66,369 posts)I first realized we were going off the rails back in the 90's, when I first heard the saying "Second place is the first loser."
Granted, it was a slogan designed to sell athletic shoes. But still, it dismissed the years of training, exertion, studying, practicing, and sacrificing an athlete may put in in order to compete, as meaningless if they didn't finish in first place. Silver medals, bronze medals, ribbons, laurels, standing on the platform listening to a national anthem, congratulating your fellow athletes, making your friends and family proud, all apparently worthless in a win-win-win culture where only first prize has any meaning.
I'm a natural-born citizen, not a naturalized citizen like Mari. But I'm thinking of getting out of here, and shaking the dust of this place from my feet. We've become a cartoon of a country.