I don’t know if you live here or not. I’m trying to stay hopeful that this regime will fall apart sooner rather than later.

Don’t call me a prisoner of my own mind. Don’t insult my intelligence. It isn’t naive or dumb to hope that things can be better, or to go looking for them.

What OP is looking for is assurance that America isn’t an unredeemable bad guy. You know what I see? Someone rapidly realizing that their reality is propagandized nationalistic pride, and trying to claw it back, exactly the way I was ten years ago.

Of course there are good things about a place. But the good things that OP listed were features that have persisted in spite of my country’s dogma, imperialism, and conservatism. Don’t get it twisted.