@randahl I never bought the entire "Land of the Free" nonsense, I always thought of the USA as one horrible abomination. I have to admit I've never been there, but I wouldn't feel safe in a land where anybody might have a gun, where religious nutters of all kinds are spreading their superstitious rubbish, and where everybody is trying to stop teenagers from having sex instead of teaching them how to be safe like any sane society would. From what I have gathered from the US media which reach me here in Germany, there is an insane amount of pressure in much of the US, you're only "free" if you're a conformist who goes along with whatever all the others do, otherwise you'll get kicked out of school, out of your job, out of everything, and some random bullies will beat you up and leave you bleeding on the ground. There are some places where things are better, but most of those places are in the urban regions along the coastlines.
I think it's about time the world stopped believing in the USA. It's not even a great democracy by democratic standards. It was built upon genocide and slavery. It's a capitalist hellhole ruled by the rich. I really hope that Trumpism does some lasting damage to the international reputation of the USA.
Then again, I'm an anti-national radical leftist anarchist, I want to live on a planet without rulers, without governments, without borders or nations, without money or markets, without property, without hierarchy.