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Are we still clinging to that claim, at this stage?
Yeah, the US have a crazy man at the helm but a very strong and resilient ship. Not the best in every regard but it's still a very good country to be born in.
I haven't seen a doctor in fifteen years. I haven't been able to afford a car since my last one died seven years ago. I'm thirty years old having to split rent three ways. This country is a labor camp with a first world facade.
You are still better of than most of the world. Not saying that you have to accept the way they require you to live just because other's got it worse.
Living a boss' minor inconvenience away from being scraped off the street by a bulldozer while sleeping in mid winter is about as bad as you can have it short of being on the street, prison/labor or genocide.
"Freeedums" doesn't mean much when your life is a cycle of work-work-work-eat(maybe)-depression/stress/anxiety-sleep(if you're lucky).
I guess you can still say the words, "fuck trump" but we'll see ig.
No. Depends on the area and your minority status.
Born in the middle of the Appalachias? You're likely to be more poor than many "3rd world" countries with little to no access to modern medicine or education.
Born in a red state as a trans person not in a major city? Get ready to get shit on by most people and your local government and maybe killed if you're too open!
Get born in the wrong parts of NC or similar? Better hope a "once in a lifetime" storm doesn't blow through or you'll have tons of coal ash poisoning your yard and life in general.
There is a MASSIVE difference in quality of life across the country and it's not all good.
To be fair, you do have the legal ability to relocate to a better place within the country. Its much harder to leave a developing country.
Legal ability and actual ability are two wholly different things. Besides, under capitalism, the better places cost a lot more money to simply exist in. No poor person from the Appalachias is going to be able to roll in to Seattle and survive off the streets.
That's kinda like saying "China is a good place to be born in, at least its not North Korea".
Sure, the US isn't nearly the worst, but I would never choose to be born here if I have, say, Norway to choose from.
*depend on the skin colour you're born with