We, don't know how lucky we are mostly because the Marxists had a plan to take over the country starting with the colleges and moving down. They have won that battle. Fighting for our lives, it will take two generations to overcome the damage. They have also taken over the press so there is no one to even challenge their policies. Meanwhile, we sell our enemies our critical infrastructure. Our farm land, Our factories. Critical drugs are no longer manufactured in country. We have to rely on the good will of China or they will let us die. We welcome our enemies into our universities so they can infiltrate top secret projects just so we can take their money. We let them edit our movies so our enemies will not be offended. We let them control our speech. If German measles and the Hong Hong Flu, and Lyme Disease are not racist, how can the Wohan virus be racist? It has always been common to name new viral diseases after the area where they were first discovered or sometimes after the scientist who first isolated them. We let anyone who can get to the southern border cross with impunity. No vaccines for them or COVID testing. Apparently, they can't carry COVID. We just give them phones so they can call us and report where they are, ask them where they want to go and put them on planes - no photo id necessary because they are "good" people whereas American citizens cannot even reenter their OWN country without proof of a COVID vaccination and a recent clean test. And just you try to get on a plane without a photo id and see how you make out.
I got a sense of how stupid US policies are 40 years ago when I lived in Kuwait for a year. My employer was a Danish company. In order to do business in Kuwait, they needed a sponsor. A Kuwaiti who would take 51% of their profit with no investment in the company necessary and no work required except some paperwork to act as our partner. On further inquiries, not only could non-citizens only own minor shares in companies operating within the country, they could not purchase any property at all. Kuwait's immigration policy was such that they would not even accept refugees from the wars going on in Lebanon and between Iraq and Iran. You had to get residence permit and live in country for 25 years before you could apply AND any children born during that time, were not considered to be citizens. In fact, the only way to be a citizen was to have a Kuwaiti father. The children of a Kuwaiti woman married to a foreign national were not citizens because the father was not a citizen. That's how much they thought of women. It's also probably why they have to be hidden away and prevented from leaving their homes without a male relative or leaving the country without the permission of their husband or father.