Our politics are corrupt, it's a real struggle here to get the same level of healthcare passed as many European countries have had now for a while. There is obvious corporate favoring going on when you see how pharma handled opiates, how companies here collect user data and resell it, how lobbying is so built into our democratic process, etc. And people care, but it mostly feels like they care just enough to virtue signal. Despite all of these things and some other mannerisms of the people here, I'm glad to have been born here.