Winner of the "Six-Word Motto for the U.S."

And it's "Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay."

I must say that I really do like that! (I also like what the Aussie Herald Sun said about the winner: Cant say that about Cuba!)

Here are the runners-up:

• "Caution! Experiment in Progress Since 1776"
• "The Most Gentle Empire So Far"
• "You Should See the Other Guy"
• "Just Like Canada, With Better Bacon"

The Freakanomics Blog's Stephen Dubner says,

I applaud your choice of winner, and I especially applaud “edholston,” the blog reader who wrote the motto. “Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay” is, while perhaps not outrightly uplifting, a wonderfully concise acknowledgment of the paradox that a capitalist democracy inevitably is: a place that is often well worth complaining about, and which allows you to complain as loudly as you wish.

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