"USA! USA!"
Sometimes we are.
I'm within easy walking distance of a large homeless encampment, the place people go whenever the police clear the sidewalks of homeless people in the rougher parts of town, or CalTrans and the police clear out the people living under overpasses or in the highway landscaping.
Affluent U.S.A. doesn't seem to care, or they don't want to think about it. Or worse they dismiss the people there as the mentally ill, the addicts, people who brought the conditions of squalor upon themselves.
I also come upon places where undocumented laborers live. These tend to be hard working people, their encampments are tidy, they send money home to their families, but they are abused, paid less than minimum wage, and treated as disposable by the unethical people who employ them. Some of these employers are giant corporations that hide their involvement behind layers of contractors and subcontractors who vanish into the mist whenever immigration enforcement actions are taken.
And about the propaganda playing in waiting rooms and lobbies... How many places have FOX News playing, or it's less blatant propaganda sibling, CNN?
Sometimes I feel like we are free to speak as we please in the USA, but only so long as our voices are ineffective.
Places like North Korea haven't learned the more sophisticated methods of stifling dissent and promoting authoritarianism.
= new reply since forum marked as read
