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Too bad they're not working, eh?No. There are lots of laws which protect individual rights.
That and amazing and diverse population. Being raised in NYC, my image of the country -tho I was raised in an all Italian Brooklyn neighborhood - was of the rainbow of people represented in a stroll through Manhattan’s West Side. That said, I didn’t get to meet and know a White Protestant til I moved to California.Amazing and diverse geography !
Yes, but that's normal. As TJ pointed out over 200 years ago, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
The US still has the best free speech protections in the world and the best protections for the right to self-defense, so things aren't that bad
Your mere assumptions are trumped by factual studies.
Politics that make no sense.Washington
Again, just your mere opinion that is contradicted by factual measurement by agencies and org's tasked with assessing them using accepted and published metrics .Your mere assumptions are trumped by factual studies. And yes; the pun was intentional.
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Yes, but that's normal. As TJ pointed out over 200 years ago, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
The US still has the best free speech protections in the world and the best protections for the right to self-defense, so things aren't that bad.
do the British know?As to the OP question, the US is the heir to British Empire and seemingly undergoing a similar decline.