People keep telling me the USA is a first-world nation. These people are either delusional or have no fucking idea what the difference is.
Just so you know, a first world nation:
* Has free healthcare
* Has maternity leave
* Requires companies to pay their employees a living wage
* Has well-maintained infrastructure
* Helps the poorest among them without victim blaming
A third-world nation:
* Has
crumbling infrastructure* Lets companies pay
crappy wages in
unsafe conditions* Uses
military force on its own citizens* Either has no middle class, or a
shrinking one. An elite group of wealthy individuals lords it over the poor masses, not caring at all about their well-being.
* Accepts
political corruption as the norm.
* Government
controlling the media, filling it with their propaganda.
* A distinct
lack of concern about
education. After all, educated masses can't be controlled as easily as ignorant and uneducated masses.
* Also a distinct lack of concern about human rights issues. (Gay marriage, abortion,
women's health, women in general,
voting rights, and others.)
*
Hyper-patriotismAnd whose fault is this?
* Corporations and rich people pushing for laws to make it so they can
pay little or no taxes, thus contributing absolutely nothing to society, the fucking parasites.
* Politicians that either fall into the above category, are complicit with it, or don't have the fucking spine to oppose it.
* The majority of Americans, including YOU, for not doing anything/enough to oppose it.
Also, people keep writing science fiction stories about a future where corporations run the government. Wake up, people: this isn't fiction anymore!
10 Signs The U.S. is Becoming a Third World Country.
So don't tell me we're a first-world nation, because we aren't. Freedom in the United States is dead. It was murdered while they distracted us with artificially-inflated fear of communists, terrorists, and pedophiles.
