America, the best country in the world.
Best? For whom exactly?
People have had a legal right to discriminate
against me until hopefully 2014, when maybe civil rights will be granted
for every citizen. Oh, and let's bring up ageism, how the elderly are
horribly mistreated and discarded in general, or how about the jails
being filled with non-violent offenders who turn violent after release?
Also, the rich literally get away with murder, while I haven't been able
to get a decent paying job for several years (despite having a
Bachelors degree that I still haven't paid off) because so many people
are misinformed about the statistics and effects of minimum wage being
increased and I happen to be too young to be "experienced" and
apparently degrees don't count for that any more, so therefore employers
still get to offer me pay below the poverty line, or perhaps my
favorite, offer me jobs where I work for free in exchange for job
experience (how am I supposed to survive?!). But hey, at least I've
still got EBT to feed myself with. Hey wait! Rich people, stop
scraping away at my grocery money!
...
Crap! Now I need to eat ramen for dinner
instead of something healthy, but at least being unhealthy later on in
life won't--
Crap, that'll be way overpriced thanks to a free market
running rampant. How much is your life worth, anyway? Can the free market determine that? How can I refuse to pay? And don't tell me I can just go to a competitor, because despite promises of breaking up monopolies, trusts and backroom deals, I don't see the United States government cracking down on these things in any significant way.
Despite all of this and more, I still love my
country, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it "the best". That poops
all over a bunch of other countries who have much better ideas than we
do about how to run a nation.
And trust me, there are a lot of good
ideas we can use to improve ourselves, but first, we need to stop
assuming we're the best.
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