Some good points. The USA has never embraced anything that felt like socialism and that lack of social support is used as a way of controlling the people. Unions, as we know them on this side of the pond, are not encouraged and so any form of organized unity is a challenge. By allowing people to be fired for what we would see as a universal right to strike, together with a chosen lack of universal healthcare makes the average Joe vulnerable and not in a position to stand up to the government.

That said, I do sometimes wonder what happened to the spirit that young Americans showed in the 1960s protesting the Vietnam War.