re: Young American Family w/Traditional Values Flees To Russia

The West for all of its flaws is orders of magnitude better than the best that Russia could ever hope to offer. Better standards of living that do translate into better intangible items like family life and individual rights that includes the right and freedom to vociferously criticize the government and even your perceptions of the culture. As a poor guy, if I so choose, I can buy a gun and own it in open possession. Can't do that in Russia. I have 4 th Amendment protections that can and do protect me from warrantless search. I have property rights that if I hold title to it are the envy of the world ( check it out).

In the West the sanctity of a contract is upheld. In Russia, not so much. If it is inconvenient, and you are not important you are shite out of luck. No appeals, no possibility of legitimate redress. I've seen it in action.

You are damned right I get "triggered" when people espouse things that are patently false about this country in particular. Are we perfect, certainly not, but as a society we are always striving to form " a more perfect union".