@deepmud @dangillmor "The land of the free" is such a phenomenally stupid saying anyway. Compared to other western countries with complex social systems that more or less prevent you from not having to fear falling ill or losing your job and therefore becoming homeless etc., US citizens are probably the least "free" people of any western country (as in free of existential fear). Hell, the freaking incarceration statistics basically says it all. US politics are a god damn farce.