a rather bleak outlook on life huh? Just go move to another part of the world and see that alothough our system is pretty fucked up, It is a hell of a lot better than any other government our there. You should get a grip. My ungrateful friend.
i'm sorry to dissapoint you, but we DO NOT have a better system, and there ARE other countries with better systems. how about: Canada, Netherlands, germany, greece, romania, iceland, switzerland, Sweden, norway, denmark, finland, belgium, and luxembourg. in all those countries, people have more basic civil rights and general freedom than the United states. those countries enjoy greater privacy, economic opportunity (ever since the dollar fell, and the E.U came around), public education, welfare, healthcare, name an issue they got it better than the U.S. most of those countries follow the ideas of the US founding fathers closer than the US does themselves.
and about military, the U.S, although big and armed to the teeth, is useless. it's all about intelligence. the U.S armed services are compromised of some of the dumbest most uneducated people in the world. the CIA is compromised of people who got C's and B's in their respective fields - if they got better grades they wouldn't be working for the CIA, a private company would have snatched them up for a higher salary before the cia. and the marines...damn...i have never met such dumb people in my life. i'm scared to think that those people are the ones supposed to protect my country. HOW THE FUCK ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO PROTECT A COUNTRY IF THEY CANT EVEN FUCKING FIND IT ON A MAP!!!!?

i think all the gung-ho patriotic people are forgetting we've lost every conflict we've been in since WWII, and every single covert operation has turned on us. it's Because the U.S has a dumb army and even dumber bunch of officers, leaders, and "intelligence" people.
compare that to Israel. they have the highest average I.Q of any army in the world, and the average private is much more educated than a high-ranking officer in the U.S army. and look what the result has been....look up the 6-day war - they won against egypt, syria, jordan, (all had soviet backup), and bombed Iraq and won the war in SIX DAYS.