Let's not sell out our entire country because someone is on a soapbox from a likely near or worse country.

The number of countries that can rightfully speak down to the US isn't that large and is mostly in Western/Northern Europe. And half of those have held that distinction for a quite short time.

Largely the problem is that we're following the world in the wrong direction rather than leading it in the right direction.

We're failing to be a beacon of freedom and a role model for citizens in places like China and Russia and Iran and Saudi Arabia. Our failure to improve ourselves and the world doesn't make those other countries superior.

We should all be trying to pull each other up instead of tearing each other down.

Well everyone in a representative democracy takes a small amount of responsibility for it.

So the actual amount of responsibility for the past is mainly symbolic, and you should treat it as such. It takes on more meaning when you consider that what happens next is a much larger responsibility for individual citizens.

I notice that many similar complaints are founded in individualism, which is the ideological reason you folks are in this mess.

Start there.

Organize, or bear judgment.