""I can name many countries that are freer than the US, and offer more hope." "Please do."

If President FD Roosevelt's four freedoms is taken as a basis - freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - and account is taken, in that context, of such matters as welfare and universal medical provision, there are undoubtedly many countries which would score far higher than the present USA. Most European countries, for a start. And it seems likely that Roosevelt would agree with that assessment - therer's nothing anti-American in making it.