We understand it, because we travel there on vacations.
My last time in America I went to San Francisco, I have not seen a worst place to live in my life, and I have been in Africa.
Especially Europe. Europeans don’t even seem to understand how large America is, which is why so few have passports.
Self-defense is an absolute right unlike other places.
In America the people are responsible, not the government or their enlightened bureaucrats.
The government can never ever actually represent the people. It cannot act in the best interest of the people.
You know why?
Because it's made of people, and those people can only act in the best interest of themselves. They will never ever act in the best interest of other people, because people physically cannot.
So why are Americans getting "poorer"
Well they're not. This is absolutely false. The American people are getting richer. The American people have a widening wealth gap, but that is far from increasing poverty.
That increasing wealth gap is due to restrictions imposed by enlightened bureaucrats on people getting wealthy, in collusion with the old money old industry extremely wealthy incumbents.
In other words the State apparatus is hijacked by the incumbents that assume their survival is the survival the American people, hence they are "public". That state apparatus will never ever attempt to dismantle the very thing that feeds it.
That's why it hates newcomers and that's why the state apparatus must go.
You're right, the U.S. is very business and industry friendly, which explains why the American people have been getting poorer and poorer while corporations and their shareholders get richer and richer.