And yet most Americans live paycheck to paycheck and many/most can't come up with $500 for an emergency, while corporatists are often paid in bonuses rather than salaries in order to further dodge their tax burdens, many top 500 corporations pay zero in corporate income taxes, and there hasn't been this degree of disparity between workers' wages and CEO pay ever in US history.
Most people who have lived had lives orders of magnitude worse.
That's what I would categorize as 'negative relativism', and comparing our Country to 3rd world areas in order to feel better achieves nothing toward correcting those issues the have needed corrected for a long time.
We are sliding, that is true.
When any entity engages in theft and deceit in pursuit of profits, while preying specifically on the elderly, sick and dying, they get whatever they get and have forfeited their right to bitch about it.
The issue is a mixed system. Healthcare needs to be either provider and customer, or gasp, run by the state.
The insurance lobby, one of the strongest in the Nation, is a totally unnecessary middleman, raping the public and physicians simultaneously.
economic migrants. mostly criminals , encouraged to be the americans replacement
Perhaps when you spend some time reading about the history of the CIA and State Dept. in propping up pro-US despots and playing around with the structured other countries' governments, leading to 40+ years of chaos in favor of various agendas, then maybe you'd understand why many of these people have left Guatemala, El Salvador and elsewhere. Or maybe talk with folks who were there then. Shake that redneck angle of view perhaps.
Ukraine? Zelenskyy?
Bingo
