I'm trying to write this comment without hyperbole, but if I fail, forgive me. The US is systematically destroying their main competitive advantage: luring the

I'm trying to write this comment without hyperbole, but if I fail, forgive me. The US is systematically destroying their main competitive advantage: luring the hardest working and/or most intelligent people to their country with the promise that they will be surrounded by others like them (either smart, or hard working, or both) and that they will be free to use their talents as they wish (research physics, build a chain of clothing stores, or start an internet startup). I wanted to move to America when I was much younger. Canada was a bit more left wing than it is right now (although it still has its problems, don't get me wrong, and I'm mostly talking about the cultural attitude of left wingers, rather than the policies themselves) and America was a bit more economically free and much more socially free. The mindstate that the common citizens are in is appalling. I talked to one man the other day that seriously believed that police should be able to come into your house without a warrant and search your belongings. The fear of terrorism, the blatant anti-intellectualism, and the rampant corruption are ruining the appeal to foreigners to relocate. And I'm a white, Christian, English speaking, male. The only mark against me is that my dad's name is the Turkish version of Mohammed, but he's half German, so none of it shows. I can't imagine how much damage has been done to the attractiveness of America in the past decade to a real middle easterner. Now all of this being said, I've been to America many, many times. American people are great. Some of my family is American. Many, if not most, of my intellectual idols are American, but America needs to clean up the corruption and relax a lot more in order to restore her place in the world.