Americans either don't know or want to know that the US is collapsing or think that nothing can be done to save the USA. Any plans or ideas to slow or escape the decay are quickly shot down as unworkable.
Instead of demanding that minimum wages be repealed or checkpoints be ended, Americans would rather beg for their chains by asking for more laws.
Insanity.
People once thought that more Americans would become Libertarians when the US became a police state, but now the opposite has happened.
Instead of embracing freedom, Americans love tyranny more.
Since the government has destroyed the economy, Americans accept welfare and think that the state is their protector.
Once tyranny and brainwashing wins, people love their chains and will never love freedom again.
You can be sure that some tears were real when Stalin died.