The US had caused more wars and killed more people in the last 50 years than other countries combined, for financial gain and continues to do so. And no one has been held to account for these serious crimes against humanity.
There is a serious situation with the way black people are treated by the law enforcement, their continued marginalization, demonization, and social mobility. There are more issues around native americans.
There is an entire totalitarian type surveillance state now in operation, with secret courts, secret lists, secret processes and those in power not only routinely getting away with crimes against humanity but also their own people.
Whistle blowers and journalists like Drake, Snowden, Greenwald, Poitras and others who seek to expose the burgeoning surveillance state far from raising alarm are being harassed and persecuted.
These cannot be held up as examples of individuals or states that care about human rights and freedom and I suspect the reality of losing the historical and carefully nurtured 'moral high ground' that has been used to principally bully 'inconvenient' interests and nations has not sunk in among the population. Continuing to claim the high ground clings to nostalgia and myths that have little to do with reality.
The abuse of human rights to demonize other nations for political and strategic interests with little actual concern for people at large has gone on for too long. And achieved little in reality than fuelling a gratutious sense of superiority in the west and complacency in turn and diasters like in Iraq and other unfortunate targets. A genuine interest in human rights will need a untainted less self interested approach. Freedom is not a competition.