“Watching the arc of excuses made by citizens of the US has been a black comedy: it started with excuses about how China managed to control Covid, it moved on t

“Watching the arc of excuses made by citizens of the US has been a black comedy: it started with excuses about how China managed to control Covid, it moved on to different excuses when some other Asian countries managed low death counts, then the excuses changed again once some first world countries got their shit together. The underlying premise was “USA #1” therefore if another country is doing better then let’s pipe up with a irrelevant excuse meme. The pattern is tragically hilarious.” Seems like what you mean by ‘trying to help’, is to assert that and that the US problems are the result of excuses and an attitude problem. Do you seriously think that no Americans are interested in how other countries do things? As people have pointed out elsewhere, one of the two major political parties makes a point of citing other countries as models. You say you are trying to help, but you haven’t offered any helpful suggestions. You keep saying other countries are better governed, but somehow you haven’t identified a single thing the US could actually do to govern better. It’s entirely possible that what looks like ‘better government’ isn’t a feature of a system at all, and just the result of a simpler situation of not having had to face particular challenges. Without actually saying what the US could do better, you really aren’t making a case for anything. What we do know, is that you keep saying that other countries are better than the US, and that you firmly believe this. How is this different from the people who believe that the US is better than other counties? Aren’t you just the mirror image of the thing you are criticizing?