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Donald H
Have you not studied history?
Do you not know the mass scale of genocides and racism of tribes
against tribes in Europe, Asia, Africa STILL going on today?
America is like a small section on the timeline of ongoing battles
with humanity coming to terms with control of laws, land, resources and populations.
I appreciate that we have higher standards of holding
US govt to account because our laws and system were set up for that purpose.
But Gee Whiz, look at the bigger picture!
For everything bad that Capitalism and Freedom has been abused for,
also look at the greater good that this system has enabled and produced.
People from other countries would LOVE to have the freedom we have here,
MINUS the problems that come with those added freedom and resources.
The only reason you could say we have worse problems is we have
more freedom and resources to either use correctly or abuse for wrongs.
Are you going to assert that countries that don't allow people to
question oppression of minorities are "less affected by racism"
because these problems are suppressed?
That countries in the Middle East have "less issue" with LGBT because those
people aren't allowed to speak out publicly and our citizens are?
Muslims flee to America to HAVE the freedom to represent and act
for themselves without govt or religious oppression.
Relatively speaking, the strengths and weaknesses about American
freedom come out even; but when you focus on the solutions that
our system ALLOWS, then it comes out AHEAD, where at least we
can ADDRESS and SOLVE our own problems which reflect society as a whole
facing this same learning curve.