How do Americans benefit from the US being a "superpower"

Because no one wants China to be the dominant superpower, so America has to be one. For all America's faults, China is worse in every way.

Also, no one, I mean no one, wants Canada to be dominating culturally. It's American culture but they somehow have a stick up their ass about it. They'd keel over at everything.
 
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ProgKing of the North said:
Being a superpower seems to bring a lot of annoying shit like having to be world cops and competing with China and Russia for influence. Should we hand off all the superpower shit to Canada and just focus on ourselves?
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It means people have to do what we want, to an extent, and we get to tell people to fuck off. Might makes right in realpolitik. China and Russia would squeeze the shit out of us if we weren't a superpower. I'm sure some butthurt Euros would get in on the action as well because we've been too uppity for their liking. We can't hand off being a superpower because there is literally nobody to hand it off to. China has an army, but their navy is a brownwater joke. I haven't paid attention to their airforce lately. Russia's intervention in Syria showed the limits of their force projection. Eurocucks started spending their Cold War era defense budgets on welfare decades ago.

There is nobody else to do it.
 
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The most obvious and everyday thing is the fact that our Navy is so powerful and able to project force, allowing goods to flow pretty freely. Thus, we can get our cheap shit from China to buy at Wal-Mart. 'Merica, fuck yeah!

Though, this fact has allowed jobs and goods production to move to China and has contributed bigly to the cratering of the middle class, so it's not a good thing in actuality. Unless you're a retarded libertarian or an oligarch, that is.
 
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While Canada is a G7 nation (aka the 7 richest in the world) and being both a British Commonwealth nation and living next door to the USA with a culture borrowing the best from both as well as their own, Canada at one point HAD the potential to be a true world leader in the 40s to 60s as they still had most of their troops (which were legendary for bravery and tenacity in WW2 and to this day are among the most respected international peacekeeping forces with the ability to both play politics AND kick ass.), as well as excellent naval craft and a huge air force still at wartime levels, and were in the process of developing the world's best interceptor for it's time, the Avro Arrow, which had capabilities that wouldn't be seen in military aircraft for another 10 years, including the range and mach 3 speed to patrol Canada's vast spaces and intercept Russian missiles LONG before they were a danger.

And then Prime Minister Diefenbaker cucked the entire Canadian aerospace industry just before the Arrow was to go into full production by giving in to American desires of NOT having a military aircraft with the potential to cut deep into sales for their own aircraft, in exchange for a bunch of shitty F-104 Starfighters (that Canada replaced less then 10 years later) and bunch of obsolete Bowmarc anti-ICBM missile batteries that they were no longer using. After that, Canada chose to exert it's influence in the world through trade and the troops for peacekeeping, but let the navy and airforce decline to today's levels.

So no thanks, Canada is plenty happy to leave all that superpower shit to America, Canada will continue to be the peacemakers rather then warmongers and regime changers.
 
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Americans benefit from the U.S. being the superpower by it being living proof that the government standing in for Mommy is not the path to success. Every other nation tries it, and ultimately collapses; the country that respects its citizens' rights, admits that there is a higher authority than any man's wishes or whims, and embraces ambition as the driver of real progress stands head and shoulders above all. We are the proof that the American Experiment succeeds.

Even when Eurotrash and Russia and China scold and sneer and call us ugly names, they will always come crawling, begging us for help and money. We're the successful sibling, the one who made good, the one who is nobody's bitch.

And the only thing that will ever topple us, ever, is if enough of us are foolish enough to think we can throw all that away and become Just Another Socialist Nation and still live so well and so free.
 
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1) No we shouldn't hand it over to Russia or China;

2) Yeah I would agree with @spurger king that our status doesn't really help the ordinary man that much;

3) Our status has probably attracted far more intellectuals and enterpreneurs than would any other country simply because it clearly is far more beneficial to work for, in, and/or with a super-power than not;

4) Because we're a super-power, we're far more likely to get advantageous deals from other countries; and

5) Generally speaking any and all super-powers determine market prices because their currency becomes the de-facto currency;

That's what comes to mind as of now. Sure there are some other benefits to consider though it does certainly come with headaches.
 
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