If living in the US means contending with roving gangs of masked men snatching up people off the streets, looking at living conditions in other police states, like how their housing policy means ordinary middle class people can still afford a place to live, or how their healthcare system means medical bankruptcy is not a thing, seems like it would be possible to have a reasonable discussion about. If the US is no longer a place where a TV show host can no longer make fun of the President or else his show gets canceled, is it really that far off from China's handling of Pooh bear memes and Xi?