America is the best place despite its rapid decline.
Unless we push back on crap like this it won’t be the best place much longer.
The people you are arguing against are those trying to point out how to KEEP the best country in the world, and not just remember it nostalgically. From reading your posts, it appears you believe that the U.S. is a static nation - that the fact of having inalienable rights identified on paper makes those rights inviolable.
The people you are arguing against are trying to tell you that crap like the roadblocks discussed on this thread are inherently violations of those inalienable rights. Acceptance of this by subjects - er citizens - is the alienation of those inalienable rights.
Oh - I, too, have been overseas and fully appreciate the greatness of this country. I want to keep that greatness as more than a memory.
The US doesn’t have a monopoly on nice places.
For someone such as myself who puts a fairly high value on gun liberties I would agree that the US is still the best. Measured against other liberties such as freedom of movement, speech, and economic liberty the US has ceded its top position. I don’t like it one bit, but I’m also not going to deny it.