[defrost]

No, it's sadly true, the US is regarded as having an old, quaint, constitution that has deep flaws.

Eg, an inability to enforce anti corruption at state and federal levels and a weak ineffectual process of bringing heels to boot.

[waynecochran]

Yet it has produced the most fruitful country the world has ever seen. The genius of the document is that it assumes the corruption of a centralized power and provides the proper counter measures to return the power to the people.

[defrost]

The country that didn't even make the top 20 of the Happiest Countries in the World 2026 list?

<yawn>

> provides the proper counter measures to return the power to the people.

Wake me up when that happens.

[waynecochran]

Happiest country.. there is an objective measure

[defrost]

Happiest, Fruitful .. on par for objectivity really.

Glad you noticed.

[renewiltord]

And you won’t believe it but the US didn’t make J D Power Best Places To Work either. In fact, I’m told that the Barclays Certified Happy Places To Live Brought To You By Standard Chartered doesn’t list a single American city.

[defrost]

To the country's credit, it is rocketing up the 2026 banana republic charts.

[renewiltord]

JD Power ranking American fashion brands now? Not bad.