1. Civil Rights Movement
2. Freeing Jews from Auschwitz
3. Destroying Hitler and the Axis of evil
4. GI bill to provide veterans with a fair shot at education
5. Women's sufferage
Thats five off of the top of my head, I hate how everyone sh!ts on the government but sits behind their computer with freedom and security. Go live in Iraq if you don't like the government here. Our government is the best around, proven. Our constitution is the longest successful set of rules in history.
So unless you know what your talking about:bryce:
And I believe the word you were fishing for was "slightest" amount of competence
You're kidding, right? #1 & 5 were forced through public opinion and in extremely an invasive and unequal manner. Affirmative action? Welfare? The Cloward/Piven strategy shows how weak the government solutions are. Oh and what do you think was one of the primary causes of Prohibition? Organizations like the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Great job, early female voters, causing the mafia wars of the 20's and essentially setting the stage for the later unconstitutional War on Drugs and every other unconstitutional regulatory federal power the government has generously given itself.
#2: Freeing Jews from Auschwitz? That was THE SOVIET RED ARMY. Good grasp of history on that one too. Thanks, Commies!
#3 Destroying the Axis of Evil? lol The Axis Powers were not referred to as the Axis of Evil, that's from a G.W. Bush delivered speech on Iraq, Iran and North Korea. As for Hitler, again, the popular historical conception is that he killed himself before THE SOVIET RED ARMY invaded Berlin, killing and raping hundreds of thousands of civilians along the way. Thanks again, Commies!
#4 is another redistribution scheme designed to get more kids to sacrifice themselves to the Imperial American War Machine. It's nice that they get to go to college. Maybe we should consider paying them more while they're in active service instead of giving all the money to overpaid companies like Halliburton and XE for things soldiers were already doing.
Your concept of history is highly incomplete, and the typical neocon argument of "You don't like it here? Go live in Iraq" or some other country like France or whatever is funny, considering two things.
#1 The government there was installed by the U.S. (at the cost of oh, only a million or so Iraqi lives, I wonder why middle-easterners might hate us) and should therefore be pretty free, right?
#2 That's the typical neoconservative shtick which should honestly be phrased, "You don't support our Fascisocialist agenda? Well don't do anything radical like try to restore the Constitutional Republic. Instead, go live in some other similarly globalized country elsewhere that speaks a different language and must be less free than us, though I say that with no actual evidence in support. Now excuse me while I go watch the USA PATRIOT Act renewal celebration on Fox News"
If our government is so great, why don't they follow the Constitution?