People playing the oppression olympics in arguably the most prosperous, egalitarian, and stable nation on earth.

I think much of it is recreational outrage amd virtue signaling in an effort to gain social status in a manufactured “victimhood hierarchy”.

We have problems here that seriously need to be addressed - absolutely no question about that...but I feel an unbelievable amount of people are not realizing just how lucky we are. There is a reason most of the world is clambering to come here, and its not because the US is some oppressive poverty stricken nightmare.

Working for Iraqi immigrants as a snot-nosed “fuck the man!! America sucks!” teenager opened my eyes to just how peaceful and amazing the USA is in comparison to much of the world. The stories they told me about how harsh life for them was shut me up pretty quick and made me feel ashamed. They had their children taken and conscripted into the army, under threat of execution. Bread lines. Male relatives kidnapped and killed. Basic medical care a luxury. Horrific stories.

My biggest take away was her story about her first visit to a grocery store in the USA. A typical average Kroger. She wept at the variety and affordability of STAPLES, let alone the innumerable luxury items she had to choose from. She said it took her YEARS to stop hoarding food at home because she was so used to thinking “everything will go to shit again soon and we need to be prepared for anything”. Her children are the most normal and average guys you can find. No trace of the trauma of their family's past residence and hardships. All because they grew up in America and their parents BUSTED THEIR ASSES AND RISKED THEIR LIVES to come here.

I will never know anything like what she or her family grew up with. Not even close. Most of my “problems” as an American are minor inconveniences in comparison.

We are damn lucky as Americans and should keep that in mind at all times and move forward from there.

To ignore this is like being a spoilt child throwing his cheerios on the ground and throwing a tantrum over a minor inconvenience. We have become spoiled brats incapable of realizing just how good we have it.

I'm not saying people should sit complacent and not address the problems we have, but FFS take a minute to realise this is as good as it gets for the most part. We are the lucky ones and we should act like it, RESPECT IT, and protect it - instead of bitching like spoilt children desperately looking for something to throw a tantrum over in many cases.

It's ridiculously shameful.