Europe isn’t the world either. Many Euro govs are no doubt more effective in representing their people however, nowhere on earth has the monopoly on all being all smarts. Yeah, I agree maybe a 3rd of us in the US as being total problems and probably never any kind of civilized solution.

Being in this US empire imparts a false hubris, I agree, it’s a flaw no doubt, kind of like some Euro nation-states of yesteryear.