Germany and Western Europe generally also had a strong, nationally-funded social support system and a high quality, affordable education, which contributed to s

Germany and Western Europe generally also had a strong, nationally-funded social support system and a high quality, affordable education, which contributed to smaller socio-economic divisions and combated the rise of an impoverished class whose members would be stuck in a setting surrounded by danger and casual crime. Even those that are lucky enough to have decent education in US are often having to sacrifice their own upward mobility in order to support their homes and families at early ages. The political and media landscape in the US is blatantly, openly toxic and corrupted so severely by just a few powerful people that it feels second maybe only to the Soviet Union and despotic dictatorships. Race (and religious difference) has always been, since the foundation of the country, the thing that the ruling classes of the US blame while pillaging the commonwealth. While you may idolize ethno-nationalism, it will solve no real social problems. Racial minorities in the US have been systemically mistreated for centuries. To look at a Native American reservation today and blame its residents for their own misfortune is equivalent to ripping out 350 years worth of pages from a US History book. It's deluded. Racial minorities in the US don't choose a harder life of fewer opportunities and a tougher path to success -- they have it imposed on them by hundreds of years of force.