[zoyd]

Could you please point out the country in the world where things are better than here?

That's not the point. The point is what Americans deserve, not how we rate with the rest of the world. If we gave up 90% of our freedoms, but things were still 'better than the rest of the world', we should be upset about it. Americans deserve what Americans deserve, and it has NOTHING to do with what other countries do.

[Luis Gonzalez]

No, that is the point.

"Here" happens to be the top.

We got to where we are somehow.

We haven't given up 90% of our freedoms, nor are we in any immediate danger of it happening.

Your position assumes that America was at its zenith on its foundation, and somehow less than that now.

It doesn't make any sense.