It's definitely a hot mess, but it is still my home.
I completely get it! But at the same time, I think you are one of the selection bias people I talk to - not quite an average American, even if in America, you might seem average. You spend so much time in other views of the world and people here on Hive.
and a lot of freedoms that we often take for granted.
This is quite interesting, because from the Americans I know here in Finland, Europe is freer. But I don't think you guys think that in the US.
That could be very true about us not having as many freedoms as I think. It's definitely hard because where I live is kind of a small subset of the world. Like small town middle America can't really be compared to the big cities on the coasts which is what most people think of when they consider America. People tend to see all these extremes and forget about the masses that live somewhere in the middle just trying to live their best life possible.