What's the Best Thing About America, ABC News Asks

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ABC News asked people what's the best thing about America. Well, the usual platitudes about freedoms and free speech (as if other countries don't have freedom of speech) came out of course. But if they were to ask me, I would say that without a doubt the best thing about America is its natural beauty. There cannot be a more ecologically diverse or beautiful county in the world to rival the natural wonders of the US. UNFORTUNATELY, they are masked and marred by the horrendously ugly man-made environment of strip malls and McMansions.  It's horrible what humans have done to a once beautiful land. But the visual pollution doesn't stop at the built environment, it exits in the slovenly nature of much too casual dress among the natives. Outside a few blocks of Manhattan, the US is made up of some of worst dressed people around. I remember Tracy Ullman was on the Tonight Show in the 80s and asked, 'What is it about Americans? They are the richest people in the world, yet they dress like Czechoslovakians (this was at the height of the Cold War and Communism in that once unified country). I think she was being much much too unfair -- to the Czechoslovakians!

And I don't even want to get started with the Fiat 500-sized wide asses. I'll leave that for another time.

Too bad the best thing about American is obscured by so much visual pollution.