Been seeing a lot about how the government passes shitty laws, lot of mass shootings and expensive asf health care. I come from a developing nation and we were always told how America is great and whatnot. Are all states is America bad ?

  • Skeith
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    1 year ago

    I think something very understated about America is that we are aggressively democratic. Which to me means everyone shares their opinion, and thinks there is a meaningful way to enact that opinion. In the same way that you don’t celebrate your utility company keeping the lights on, we tend to take time to voice our opinion when something is broken, not when something is working as intended, because why bother speaking out about good things when they don’t need to be changing the first place? Thus, you have a large quantity of commentary and it also skews negative.

    America has serious problems but our strengths go unspoken because we consider it to be the base level of society. We are incredibly wealthy overall, have the strongest military, and despite recent hiccups we are incredibly stable. Our geography is very diverse and can support a great deal of people and industry.