What is the point of a theoretical government? So it was set up to work one way, but actually works another. How therefore, can it be any better? It doesnt matter what it was set up for...many things are set up to do one thing, but actually work like another. The Roman Empire for example. Of course most people take advantage of the system. What else would you expect to happen?
I’m concerned because I see kindly Western systems (US, UK, Swedish, French..who cares), often Church inpsired, set up to support the common good, being abused by crooks and swindlers and idlers. Doesn’t that make you mad?
And incidentally, I doubt very much, for all your boasting, that Americans have much more practical freedom than we do.
You are cordially invited to attend a public gun show in Texas sometime and then truthfully repeat that comment. Have you ever been here? And I do know something about England, having been a student in London eons ago.