What you consider freedom (and Human Rights) is likely different than I. However, in the US you get to live with the tyranny of the majority, regardless of what

What you consider freedom (and Human Rights) is likely different than I. However, in the US you get to live with the tyranny of the majority, regardless of what either of us think. The fact that it's (largely) an ignorant mass in charge vs a specific individual (and their motivated power structures) is different and yet the same. Culturally, China tolerates more. Give the USA a couple thousand years and it will look identical. No form of government has lasted the test of time, but authoritarian governments have statistically populated the longest lasting ones. In modernity, there has been a brief renaissance, but I don't believe that corruption of a modern democracy will take longer than it did for Rome ANYWHERE, including the USA. It's hard to be critical of becoming successful as robber barons of the USA, when there's so little culture and so much of the capital to waste. Don't mistake those qualities for innate value.