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Trey Walsh
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For the American nostriches 🇺🇸

What makes America, America? What values should all Americans (regardless of political party) share and believe in our social contract?

And what is currently the biggest risk to this social contract?

#asknostr

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JT · 26w
Its certainly not people like you.
Undisciplined · 26w
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness You can pursue whatever kind of life appeals to you, provided you allow others to do the same. I don't think this view is widely held in either of the major parties.
Trivium · 26w
1. Christian morals. 2. Godless ideology.
The BTC DDS · 26w
One word: Freedom
Ben Justman🍷 · 26w
Theft being at the base layer of society (the money - you know this obvs) means the social contract is broke from the start. Everyone knows it, but most don't KNOW it. I'm a nhialist solely in the sense that nothing gets fixed on a societal level until the money is fixed. It will get worse befor...
Dan Wedge · 26w
My canuck take Baseball, apple pie
Matty Mick · 26w
Meritocracy, property rights, limited power of government. The latter has been lost and has broken the former.
Lightning_Sparks · 26w
2nd amendment for one makes America America. It’s one of the few things left I think where one’s right to protect themselves isn’t taken away for someone else perceived “safety” even though they try hard to take away this right. Time with family is a value I think all Americans need to va...
DefiantDandelion · 26w
I don’t know if I believe in “social contracts” but what values should we all have regardless of party: Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to assemble, right to petition the government, the right to bear arms, right to a fair trial, tried by a jury of your pe...
Cincy · 26w
privacy, property rights
Globe99 · 26w
Most contemporary Nation-states exist as the result of the post-WWII order (i.e. most of Eurasia), or liberated colonies in the Western Hemisphere and Global South. Taken in this sense, America is simply one of the latter... But I think the post-cold-war, post-9/11 wars America of today faces a sev...
empiricalskeptic · 26w
Live and let live within the boundaries of the laws constructed by representative bodies. Threats: arbitrary rules motivated by ancient superstitions and enforced by threats of violence.
TeslaLiberty · 26w
The progressives/leftists are the biggest risk to America
G Force G · 26w
Truth justice and the American way.
G Force G · 26w
Fuck bitches. Print money.
MrTea · 26w
Individual rights Democracy Rule of Law Opportunity Biggest threats? Civic apathy Threats to freedom of speech Toxic empathy
Shawn · 25w
E pluribus unum Out of many, one Our greatest strength is when we can work together. The reason it works so well here in America compared to other countries is because we’re a country of immigrants so we have a very high level of diversity. That’s why our adversaries (China, Russia, mega-corp...