Americans overestimate social mobility in their country
America is being attacked by pervasive narratives like this. News rags the whole world over are shitting on us, meanwhile authoritarian regimes are rising to power. It&#x27;s a narrative dismantling, and we&#x27;re being played like fools.<p>America is still the best country in the world to start a business and take risks.<p>America still has more freedoms (speech especially) than most of the world. (Side note: The left wants to put more restrictions on speech, which is horrible, because Republicans will swing back into power and use it in the other direction.)<p>America holds NATO together. Europeans don&#x27;t give us enough credit. And they&#x27;re replete with their own crises to always be pointing the finger.<p>We need more unity. This division by ideology and class is giving us short sightedness and blunting our ability to make sound investments in the future.<p>Globalism is something that should be reevaluated. Our capital is being invested into the capabilities of rivals, and it doesn&#x27;t pay dividends. Americans have been turned into buyers of cheap plastic goods, and we&#x27;ve lost the ability to make our own critical components and wares. Huge mistake, driven in part by these narratives.<p>We&#x27;re optimists, but the media is telling us not to be. They want us to yell at each other and drive ourselves into the dirt.