Your President is behaving exactly like every fascist and dictator seeking to overturn democracy in history has. Calling journalists liars and fake, lying himse

Your President is behaving exactly like every fascist and dictator seeking to overturn democracy in history has. Calling journalists liars and fake, lying himself, starting trade wars, dog whistling, large rallies to his base, promoting his friends and family, ensuring his own businesses make plenty of money from his being in power, hinting at extension of term limits and applauding China's Xi Jinping's "life tenure"... it goes on, and on, and on, and on... All of the great things you point out stand a chance of being over-turned within the next 6 years. Marijuana and gay marriage might stick, but prison population has a long, long way to go before it's anywhere near the same ratio as other developed nations and in the meantime the US is looking up children separated forcibly from their parents for the "crime" of being immigrants, (immigrants, just like your own ancestors most likely were). The US welfare state is not "amongst the most generous". You've just admitted it's at OECD "average". The fact many other countries are absolute shit, doesn't mean the US is "elite" at this: it's at the bottom of the pile of developed nations, pretty much. The fact healthcare that is free at the point of use is a contentious issue in the United States (but a given in most developed nations), is a pointer in itself to how poor the whole social contract/welfare area is, and how little empathy for misfortune American politics is allowed to have before it is punished by a narrow-minded and selfish electorate. And on your point on immigration and Scandinavia, I don't think you understand how immigration within the EU works, or been keeping up to date with the Syrian refugee crisis, and Scandinavia's response since the start of the Syrian "civil" war. And whilst most EU refugee processing centres are not very nice, and do take some time to do some processing (for legitimate anti-terrorism reasons), they at least do not rip children away from their parents, put them in cells described as "cages" and try and justify this as normal behaviour. My father is American. I spent my childhood in much awe at the potential and its history, even as a young English boy. But its future is far from certain, and it most definitely is not on a course of further liberalisation - quite the opposite in fact. Who cares if you can smoke weed though, right?