How can we stop America's descent to mediocrity?

[thomas_paine]

We're no longer number 1 unless you're talking about fat people and military weapons.

I think the way to do it is to look at places that are still awesome like liberal Austin, TX and Massachusetts. Awesome because they are great places to live and rank high in education, median incomes, low poverty, etc, etc.

We should emulate these parts of the country and NOT emulate the crappy conservative parts of America with the most fat and least educated people like Mississippi and Alabama.