[sofixa]

> We didn't have a feudal system and didn't depend on a monarch to run many details of our daily life.

Neither were the British by the time the American revolution started.

I don't see much difference in the personal opportunities and rights between post-independence US and industrial Britain. Apart from, you know, the US having slaves with no rights nor opportunities.

[_heimdall]

The British absolutely was a monarchy during the American revolution.

The British don't have a right freedom of speech, for example. They gave been arresting and charging people for social media posts.

We're getting way off on a tangent here though. The original point you were commenting on was that welfare programs, including those the US already has, don't fit in the model the US was original founded on and operated under for a majority of the time the country has existed.