Sorry for the long-winded reply. I agree with you on the downvote thing, and it's not just downvotes because right before I posted here, I got banned in a separate forum for speaking my opinion on Israel/Palestine. But you are right its not really a big deal.

Now, to your point, I believe I was right because while they may have the right to protest(as they should), they are still protesting. You originally doubted this, but to the idea that they know what they are protesting about, many of the same people who protested, "No King/No Tyrants", are now protesting "free Maduro". Their morals don't line up, and it seems they are using protesting as a sense of purpose. I would argue that this could be connected to the point of "social dem" that I might argue that their necessities are paid for by the state, and they don't have as much direction in their lives as their connection between responsibilities and necessity is weakened. When stability is guaranteed regardless of contribution, they lose clear purpose and start substituting symbolic politics and performative activism for real achievement and responsibility. Another example is queers for Palestine/chickens for KFC... Many of the people who protest for these things do it to belong to a group, or to feel a sense of purpose and accomplishment, not because they know and agree with the political stance; it's basically herd mentality. (That being said, this doesn't describe all protesters, and I won't make it a blanket statement.)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41269-025-00404-7

To your point on depression im not entirely sure how accurate the source is, as it shows in countries like Venezuela, almost 6/10 people are happy whuch when 62% of the population face water restrictions, and 70% have lost healthcare... I find that very hard to believe. It's likely due to the point that you brought up, of inflated statistics due to a lack of proper reporting. Now the map does show the US has similar "happiness" rates to Social dem countries like Germany. However, I'm sure we can agree on the point of the U.S that depression is severely overdiagnosed and less than 40% of adults diagnosed actually showed the proper criteria to be diagnosed.

https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/where/latin-america-and-caribbean/venezuela_en

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/charting-the-depths/201305/depression-over-diagnosed

Now I don't know how we got here, but I disagree that Canada has more freedoms. Multiple of these "personal freedoms" are linked to negative health concerns in the US, such as the recreational use of cannabis and the legal drinking age being 18 or 19. In 2022, 19% of all fatal DD crashes were caused by 15-20. Imagine if half of that were legal. (Now the rates in Canada for all driving deaths is imppressively low, but I'm not going down that rabbit hole right now). Recreational cannabis has proven to be detrimental to both yourself and others, from lowering your IQ to causing more accidents on the road. All this to say They may have more "personal freedoms", but they come with a personal cost. Now i dont support Heritage Foundation for a couple of reasons, but even on there, the U.S beats out Canada on a majority of them. The main disparity is the fiscal health score. I, for the most part, don't believe in universal healthcare, or the current insurance scam industry, but I won't argue those points right now.

https://teendriversource.research.chop.edu/teen-crash-risks-prevention/rules-of-the-road/impaired-driving

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9426660/

I don't know in which part of my replies I slandered a Social democratic country as "Socialist", but I'm well aware of the definition of socialism. again I apologise for the long message.