We are all proud Americans, and think of ourselves as living in the land of the free and home of the brave. My parents never even wanted to visit another country, because all countries are a step down from America, and are probably dangerous and crime-ridden and there’s a chance you’ll end up in a flea-bitten, third-world prison, because no other country is as free as ours.

Obviously, they were exaggerating, but I’m starting to think that other countries, like Mexico, that have bad reputations are actually more free than us. I haven’t spent much time there or any other country, really, but I’ve heard other people say that there is more freedom there than in America. Here’s a comment from a guy from South Africa that confirms that America has serious problems, and we’re all the proverbial frog slowly boiling to death in the pot of water.

I have been [to America] a couple times and I find it to be a police state. When I was 24 all I wanted to do was travel the great liberated free country. I found Americans to be over the top PC and bound up in all sorts of knots. It was a total bring down and I found myself wanting to leave. It finalized my thinking that I was better off in South Africa.

As Bob Dylan’s says in his song “when you going to wake up”

Counterfeited philosophies have polluted all of your thoughts Karl Marx has got ya by the throat, Henry Kissinger’s got you tied up in knots.

When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up  When you gonna wake up strengthen the things that remain ?