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Perhaps the more salients facts are that despite everything we have never missed a meal, run out of gas, had the power turned off or been evicted and we have all always had adequate medical coverage. But we're all also relatively healthy. My daughter and I were both hospitalized during our lives for "pneumonia" (code for: seizing and opportunity to generate billing), which, in both instances, was unnecessary. But our healthcare system is profit-driven, therefore sales override healing. Also my wife was in the hospital when she gave birth...which was utterly disgusting and probably cost 20 g's. None of that cost me a dime. I guess this IS Middle Class.

There's no crime where I live. There's no violence or hate. It's really wonderful. So when people shit-talk America about the crime, rioting, blight....that's the OTHER America. It doesn't concern people like me. I myself and those of whom I am among are the direct progeny of Europe's best and brightest. That is a fact. I've studied this my whole life - lived it. Euro-Americans are the absolute pinnacle of human evolution. It's astounding how stark that is too. The contributions of a tiny sliver of the human population in a very recent fraction of human history have wrought so much advance.

Realistically, setting aside any petty complaints, we live better than probably 90% of the world population; probably even better than most Europeans. The shit we talk about - the blight, street crime, war, hate, violence, brutality, privation and hardship...exist for us only in the media. It is safe, clean and relatively prosperous here. We have top-rate educations, better access to healthy food and clean water than anyplace on Earth...and we have living space.  America's a big and beautiful country. I'm glad to be part of it, hope y'all are too.