This and many other things lead me to believe the U.S. is much less free than people would like to admit it to be. It’s just a different flavor of such unfreedom.
well, that's a start. it has the largest amount of people in prison in both per capita and in absolute numbers.
many of those people are taking plea deals simply because they cannot afford their rights.
the primary difference between the US and other systems is that we are apologists for the US system and simply don't respect other systems and thats the only distinction.
people are conditioned to retort by comparing the US with the worst countries in the world, to rationalize why we're the best in a race nobody is even in. this is a mental disease.
they're conditioned to dismiss flaws by saying "but at least we can talk about it", deflecting further discussion about the state of the system to a comfortable imagined assurance of consequence free speech, ignoring the exceptions to that part of the Bill of Rights and the other 9 amendments in it, amongst every other article and procedural gaff
