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Amazing how blatant your words of right-wing rhetoric shows the most hateful of contempt for the average individual whether they are an American citizen or a foreigner. 1. The US is the most religious of all developed nations and it is of a fundamentalist nature in the main which encourages rigid thought and belief and discourages questioning and curiosity. 2. It is the only developed nation where people both fear and hate their government. 3. It is the only developed nation which retains to a large degree, the 18th century belief that poverty is self-inflicted. 4. It is a fear-filled culture, perhaps because of the religion, which encourages aggression. Fear is always behind anger and rage. 5. It is a paranoid culture to a much larger degree than probably anywhere else which encourages the obsession with guns which has made the US the most heavily armed and most violent country on earth. It is also paranoia and fear which has created a social subset called 'preppers' which you don't find in any other developed nation and which to outsiders is sadly, laughable. This same paranoia has brought Americans to believe that social welfare, justice for the citizens, which is enjoyed by the rest of the developed world and denied to Americans, will somehow lead to socialism which, in the US, means communism. The fact that the rest of the modern world has managed to introduce and run social welfare programs while remaining healthy democracies is probably not something the average American knows. 6. The society has been insular and arrogant for a long time, believing both in its exceptionalism and superiority and remaining ignorant and disinterested in the rest of the world. The internet is changing this but Americans have been fooled into believing for most of their history that they have it better than anyone else. They don't and they never did. And in this day and age they have it worst with the average American having a poorer quality of life than the average citizen in any other developed nation. If you cannot see the reality of your life then you cannot change it. If you believe that what you have is the best anyone has then you are less inclined to demand more. The average American still does not know or believe that they have the worst quality of life of any developed nation. This is particularly disgraceful given the wealth of the nation. 7. It has the worst media in the entire world which encourages ignorance, fear and paranoia. 8. Most Americans do not possess a passport and so have no knowledge of the rest of the world and therefore no perspective on how badly served they are. I have one question for the corporate bastards and their whores on both sides of the political aisle. When you have achieved your ultimate aims of indenturing the middle class, especially young people burdened by a lifetime of student loan debt, destroying the social contract and safety net, and ultimately impoverishing the fools who keep voting against their own interests thanks to the game you're playing on them, who is going to have the income to partake of your products, services and scams? Hmmm? Thus, the system, thankfully, devours itself. I can't wait to see if your comfortable, gated communities will insulate you from the dystopia you are creating. IMHO, I think not. Can't wait to see it either. I've got my popcorn all ready. When you have managed to destabilize ahd destroy society to enrich yourselves, one wonders whether you will experience the shock and surprise of discovering that you too were parts of that society all along and that you are not insulated from its collapse. This isn't about First Amendment rights. This is about shielding corporations from responsibility and protecting your profits at all costs.