Yeah, the parent is nothing beside a long-winded appeal to American exceptionalism, which is tantamount to a defense of corrupt, rent-seeking regime that almost every other wealthy democracy has avoided. I struggle to find why anyone thinks it insightful vs. demonstrative of the tedious lengths one has to go to engage in these apologetics. The US is only a special case in that it is remarkably unrestrained in how much it allows the rich to harm the poor relative to other first world countries.