@shantini yeah, I honestly don't see us as a country so much as a federation—a mix of semi-autonomous progressive states and corrupt theocracies, loosely collected under an increasingly impotent central government.

Hence why I'm never comfortable attributing American innovation to our system of government. We've been innovating with an arm and a leg tied behind our back. So much human potential has been wasted—just crushed—because of the backwardness of the other side of America.