What is your ultimate goal for the US? Describe a perfect US.(*)

[Skip Intro]

Wide open question. Just for the hell of it.

(*) Removed the "in one sentence" portion of the question.

[quinnox]

1. Stop trying to control the whole world for starters

Yes, I know we got the biggest and baddest military on earth. But that doesn't mean we have to throw our weight around the world as if we own it and everything upon it.

Minding our own business would do wonders for our image worldwide.

[Tunkamerica]

3. That's at least 3.5 sentences.

[Tunkamerica]

2. Lasers.

[Journeyman]

4. Liberty and justice for all. . .

[Change has come]

5. With Liberty And Justice For All.

How's that for short and sweet?

[Rabblevox]

6. A nation that fulfills it's founding purpose for freedom,equality,and the rights of the common man.

[Tunkamerica]

7. This is the first full/one sentence answer.

[Rabblevox]

13. I love both liberty and word challenges; when you said "one sentence" I had to think.

[Tunkamerica]

15. To be clear, I am not the OP.

[Rabblevox]

16. Just realized that, and was about to post an "oopsie". My bad, I've been imbibing.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. A "second rate power" with a 3rd rate military.

Then, maybe, we'd be forced to give up trying to run the world and get past our swaggering adolescent fantasies.

[Selatius]

9. I believe in the dream that people like Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy believed in.

When all those visionary leaders were gunned down, essentially, the dream died with them. If they had not died, the country we know of today with its high poverty, high unemployment, high wealth inequality, war binges, worship of the wealthy, propagandized media, failing infrastructure, failing schools, and failing health care system would not exist.

In its place, there would've been a country that came closer to living up to the ideals enshrined in its Declaration of Independence. By not revolting after the fall of all those visionary leaders, we essentially condemned ourselves to this current path.

[johnroshan]

10. Freedom for those I approve of.

[Tunkamerica]

11. See this is an answer that needs more than one sentence...

...because that sounds like a pretty fucked-up dream for the US. But maybe it just needs clarification.

[johnroshan]

17. There are always restrictions to liberty.

I'll change it like this, "freedom to do things that I approve of, for people that I approve of."

I'm just saying what everyone is thinking. Although it might not be politically correct speech, that is exactly what everyone is thinking when they say "Freedom for all!". Society always sets the limits to one's liberty. In a diverse country like US, its very difficult to come to a single consensus.

A classic example would be indecency laws. Would you like to allow a 40yo to flash his penis on the bus? For someone from the African bush or other tribal regions, that might not be so repulsive.

Democracy isn't freedom. Its just majority rule with some basic rights granted to the minority. If given a chance, we all would like to be among the majority.

[Tunkamerica]

22. I'm not disagreeing outright, but your sentence is scary and I think a lot of people would take

offense to the wording no matter how "true" it might be. Mainly because it implies that certain groups get more freedom than others based on some arbitrary "approval" scale. Who decides the scale and when does my group get kicked out of the circle of approval? It's hard to believe that that is your ultimate dream for America since it seems like it's the reality, substituting "they" for "I" depending on which groups you consider yourself a part of. Kind of a creepy answer all the way around.

[Agony]

12. Be decent.

[Luminous Animal]

14. The pursuit of happiness.

[Faux pas]

18. No hated, everyone fed, clothed, housed and

taken care of medically.

[FrenchieCat]

19. The opportunity of the American Dream to be a real possibility for all, not just some.

[mahina]

20. Equality, opportunity, environmental peace, sustainable non-plunderer economy, education free to all

universal single payer health care, our young and old cared for, civil society thriving.

A land of ideas and ideals, where people are not made into machines.

Where art and literature and film and music flows and is alive.

...Cambridge!

(just kidding)

[mahina]

21. Have to tell you that I love this post by the way.

Thank you for your imagination and positivity.

Such a refreshing change from the grumbling- not that grumbling is inappropriate.

[anAustralianobserver]

23. Domestically, Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights.

[mmonk]

24. One where its people matter the most.

[blindpig]

25. Dissolution of the nation state.

One world, citizens of the Earth.