
I agree with China. We fetishize freedom but freedom to do what? Lie? Scream our selfish uneducated opinions? Carry weapons of war in our pockets? We have no civic virtue. We treat politics like bloodsport. We're more enamored with the idea of america and the idea of democracy than the realities of being a good citizen and caring about your community. It's every man for himself. It's being so at each other's throats and so pathologically paranoid about imaginary tyranny that we can't pass any