> the ridiculously dysfunctional US government Granted, there's room for improvement, but that comment reflects pretty-extreme "the glass is half empty" thinki

> the ridiculously dysfunctional US government Granted, there's room for improvement, but that comment reflects pretty-extreme "the glass is half empty" thinking. It's actually freaking amazing that a continent-wide society of nearly 330 million people, of countless ethnicities, religions, and political views, can live as successfully as we collectively do. (Compare the standard of living of poor people in the U.S. with that of poor people in some developing countries.) Proxy evidence: It's not a coincidence that — by at least an order of magnitude — far more people move to the U.S. than from the U.S. "By a wide margin, the U.S. has more immigrants than any other country in the world." [0] [0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/18/5-facts-about-the-u-s-rank-in-worldwide-migration/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/18/5-facts-abo...