Just want an explanation

Actually the u.s. has a huge amount of problems that is harming you, and crucially the people all around you as well. Even if your content with your situation youd have to ignore the 11% of the population without health insurance (which by the way means about 26,000 unnecessary deaths per year), the many millions of people un and underemployed, the 11,000 and 13,000 dollar avg household wealth of black and hispanic househoulds, as compared to the well over 100,000 dollar avg white household, the so called 'drug war' that locks up a bunch of black and hispanic males, the 80,000+ people tortured in u.s. prisons (illegally i may add) according to amnesty international through solitary confinement, the largest prison population in the world which has conditions that are an absolute international scandal (just look at prisons in germany or norway for instance), the 3 million or so people that are homeless every year, the military bases we have set up all over the world and the endless wars we are engaged in- chemical weapons, drone strikes, or the "13.1 million children under 18 in the United States live in households where they are unable to consistently access enough nutritious food necessary for a healthy life" etc. plenty more (quote from 'feeding america' website)

But i mean yeah if your capable of pushing all of that out of your mind and accepting whatever conditions you live in then i geuss its ok

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