I mean this is obviously reductionist but let's cherry pick some examples from the UK, bastion of the free. It's run by an apparently corrupt government [0] T

I mean this is obviously reductionist but let's cherry pick some examples from the UK, bastion of the free. It's run by an apparently corrupt government [0] The NHS falls over every Winter, even without the help of a pandemic [1] Backlogs on the NHS are now getting so severe that doctors are institutionally negligent - I know of two personal cancer cases missed for no good reason and GPs I know are confess to giving poor care due to being understaffed [2] Knife crime is so much of a problem it gets its own page for statistics [3]. (Spoilers: there were over 3000+ knife related injuries in London in the last year) And so, only when an MP gets stabbed to death is it newsworthy [4][5] Police can barely keep street violence from breaking out, and for the rest of the country it's just bants [6] They can't even keep their force from kidnapping innocent women off the streets at 9pm [7] and so now you their own advice is to not trust them [8] For all the talk about democracy and freedom, it really seems like freedom is about the freedom for the strong to harm and extort others. No thanks. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/11/boris-johnson-says-the-uk-is-not-remotely-a-corrupt-country-is-it https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/11/boris-johns... [1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/27/an-nhs-winter-crisis-is-nothing-new https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/27/an-nhs-winte... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/27/nhs-backlog-disproportionately-affecting-england-most-deprived https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/27/nhs-backlog-... [3] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04304/ https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04... [4] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58930593 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58930593 [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jo_Cox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jo_Cox [6] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9800015/Thug-smashes-bottle-mans-head-row-dogs-Greenwich-hottest-day-year.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9800015/Thug-smashe... [7] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-58745581 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-58745581 [8] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58753857 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58753857