You're dismissing America's current problems completely by saying "we're still better in the long run". How is that healthy for a nation? We can't even recognize our own problems without you breaking out these dishonest mental gymnastics?
No, just dont like old ladies lighting their own hair, running around screaming the apopcolypse is upon us all.
If we are better in the long run, that isnt good in your estimation? Jesus, man, get a grip. Crime rates over th last quarter century in the US have pretty much plummetted dramatically.
Right?
How many tyrannies has the US endured in our 240 year history? In the same period, how many did Europe endure? What was the number of lives lost due to in tyrannies in the US? Europe?
Do you think that is just luck, or might it have something to do with the way we govern ourselves...and others I might add. With the Monroe Doctrine, later the Roosevelt Corollary, we prevented Europeans from infecting our hemisphere any more than they already had. Our reverence for individual rights, the idea that the people are sovereign, not the government who are our servants only, and we keep our government in obeyance by our guarenteed individual freedoms one of which is our important 2nd.
The Western hemi has been an ongoing basket case counting over 100 million lives taken just by governments just last century. Undeniable.
If we should ever approach anywhere near those style numbers, 1 million pet year, in our hemi... then maybe its time to reconsider. Until then, douse the flames, pull up your collective panties and leave the law abiding alone for gods sake.
Its not broke, so dont tinker with it, damn it.