> China has much lower crime, cheaper healthcare and is making progress in other aspects.

It is also a totalitarian regime where criticising the state can get you, and possibly your family, ‘disappeared’

Sure it is, luckily we’re catching up!

> For Indigenous Americans it’s unthinkable, but true. ICE is arresting, detaining Native Americans.

https://idahocapitalsun.com/2026/02/10/for-indigenous-americ...

Detain first , ask pesky questions about citizenship and civil rights later.

I’m not in the US but yeah the country has always had a strange relationship with law and order, at least from an outside PoV. The Kent State massacre is always one that sticks with me as particularly messed up.

I don’t think the USA is necessarily changing at all, this is what it has always been the whole time

It used to want to keep up appearances, it no longer does.