They refuse to pay a living wage, have trouble grappling with their history’s issues, take heavy pride in their country and denounce and refuse to educate themselves on the rest of the world, have serious issues within their government/positions of power (ie. police force), and you can place yourself in hundreds of thousands of dollars in dept for having an infected injury, as well as for attempting to educate yourself (art school is particularly horrendous, with several covered up suicides a year, and the industry itself is difficult to find a place in). They are currently on a genocide watch list, in Stanton’s ten stages of genocide they’re pegged as “denial”. As of for why, it’s hard to say. Their history has lead to an increasingly patriotic society, which often leaves room for many overly patriotic and entitled people. Hence the whole “white middle aged American Karen” stereotypes.
I would say economically we do suck. Unfortunately it is due to our own greed as a country. We have people who work their butts off and still can’t bring food to the table. When we compare ourselves to Swedan, Denmark, and Finland we have a lot to be desired. If i had the chance to move to Denmark or Sweden I would. A country who welcomes almost everyone and is able to have so much decreased poverty due to the government giving aid to those in need, is something so desirable. Sweden has almost virtually no poverty, no debt, and has some great and amazing ways of dealing with trash. The United States is becoming less and less of a dream and more of a nightmare. Corporation is killing us, our own society is killing us, our own people are killing us. Theres not much we can do at a time like this than wish we could fix all the problems of our country. One way to help is to get into politics, start reading history, get involved with your government and try to make changes.