As a country, we (the US) keep pointing at other political systems and governmental systems as examples of terrible practices while those with power in our cou

As a country, we (the US) keep pointing at other political systems and governmental systems as examples of terrible practices while those with power in our country seem to be seeking the exact same sort of outcomes, doing everything they can within our system to move further in that direction, and largely succeeding. We really need to look in the mirror, functional outcomes not just philosophical ideas of freedom and rights (how much freedom and what rights you actually have and can use), and fix it. Instead we just want to continue on with business as usual, point fingers and say at least were not that bad, and try our best to become or allow ourselves to become that bad. IMHO we average folks in the US are losing this battle more rapidly and the underlying cause seems to be wealth disparity, the unequal levels of power wealth buys in this country safely within all our philosophical constructs, and the nature of those with the advantage to want to exploit the advantage further and further to get more power, compromise more freedoms, gain more control, etc. It's like we're running a Democracy hypervisor and installing an Authoritarian OS within it and all our accounts are user accounts inside the Authoritarian OS. Sure, Democracy underlies it all... but when's the last time you poked around the hypervisor and cared? It's transparent and largely becoming inaccessible to you for all your real world applications.