[thefz]

With access to Internet in my late teens came the exposure to an intellectual, cultured leftist America I did not know existed. Now 20 years later, it really does not exist anymore. The US is a business,not a country, and it hates its own citizens.

[pjc50]

"X is a land of contrasts" is a cliche, but: America is a land of contrasts. It manages to have elements both of shining city on the hill and squalid banana republic (resource extraction economy with poor rule of law) adjacent to each other.

But yes, the main natural predator of Americans is other Americans.

[TalkingCodeMonk]

Those contrasts only exist among the general population, which Americas political class have not represented for generations.

Can you give any examples of major corporations who do not have a verifiable history of corruption or anti-consumer/worker actions, not named costco?

Can you name more than 10 politicians over the last 50 years who would be considered leftist in the rest of the Anglo world?