Comment by atoav

It was once an open, free country that fought fascism and respected the rule of law?

Arguably it was never perfect and the ugly bits where there, so a lot of that is about an image it projected to the outside world.

You know it is the land of the free when you have to give them access to all your social media accounts at the border. I have heard stories of fellow countrymen being held for weeks without hearing any cause. So yeah, no thanks.

Maybe if you restore the rule of law and have the current, president, supreme court justices and representatives removed in 20 years or so.

Bigotry and xenophobia has brought the downfall of the US empire, for real. It was always more about who believed in it than it was for real. The US had an ugly history that it tried to ignore for the passt hundred years and at some point unsurprisingly it comes back to haunt you.