That’s because not one single govt had the vision to educate Americans. It’s a result of individualistic capitalism. Predatorial, Darwinian. No predator wants to pull along its own competition.

America is the democracy that never was. Americans have amnesia when it comes to the creation of the country. Remember genocide of indigenous peoples? Slavery? Soft slavery after Abolition? Wage slavery? Blatant white supremacy to this day? Cartel bosses propping each other up till all of america now rests on the rapaciousness of barons like Bezos and company? Trump talks about jobs ( every president has done that ) and then ignores the fact that production of goods by cartels is farmed out to other countries where they can pay $1 an hour for labor? Usa market is flooded with cheap Chinese goods. Behold the $1 Store. And China is the ‘enemy!’

Talk about brain-washing! Demonize communism and foster and practice excesses of abuse at home. Let’s make people into sheeple has been the motto forever.

I think people in countries like Pakistan wield more power and have a sense of selfhood and dignity than us blighted Americans. I should know. I inhabit both worlds.