You can no longer take freedoms for granted in the West. They are disappearing rapidly. Look around you. Your time of growing up is past. Look to the future. An incredibly oppressive and dictatorial future is coming, in which it’s not clear that Western nations will have more freedom than Russians. You can openly say things in Russia that would get you cancelled or even prosecuted in the West. They have lower taxes and much less regulatory burden.
The future may see a West less free than Russia or China. I grew up in Saudi Arabia also a repressive regime. MUCH more economic freedom, near zero taxes and increasingly, civil liberties appearing. Project 50 years. They may actually catch the West as it becomes dictatorial.
There are always issues in the USA but it is part of the cycle and will simply swing back due to the inherent mechanisms of freedom and transparency that are far stronger than in any true fascist state. As well as millions of unregistered gun owners with the ability to use them.
There are no such mechanisms in a true dictatorship and fascism simply festers until revolution or war collapses the regime.
“They have lower taxes and much less regulatory burden.”
LMAO. What is written on paper is absolute BS. When you actually live there and try to run a business, you’ll see the “burdens” and “taxes” soon enough.
Without fools in free states buying their slave labor and oil, these fascist states would be broke with a GDP less than any single US state.