Al Jazeera took the opportunity on the 4th of July to point out a few facts... Context may have been disregarded for political emphasis:
People living in glass houses casting stones? Are American society and our country as a whole moving in the wrong direction?
IMHO America is still the only place I want to call home but I will concede that there are some things I don't like about our society and current Gubment administration (who would have thought I would have shared that?!).
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus