If cryptocurrency doesn't survive being misused for stuff like that and gets dragged down because of it, then it deserves it.
But it seems to be ticking along even despite of that, just like the US Dollar, so the future seems unclear still.
But they control the loud speakers and have much stronger global enforcement, ie they are the biggest gangsters around so they set the rules.
Still, it's a democracy and some people voted for those things; it also doesn't explicitly force people to stop speaking their native language or abandon their religion, or throw people in prison for waving a sign in the street. So I keep my US passport and pay my taxes.
The US is one of the few countries in the world where people do collectively have power to make drastic and enduring changes to the system without needing to start a cycle of violence to accomplish their aims.
Tell that to me again after the financial system, immense legal corruption and healthcare has been fixed. These are all problems known for decades beyond some people's lifespans and consecutive presidents haven't been able to fix it...hell many go again their election promises with lame duck excuses.
If I had to compare both shitty superpowers, China would be "can't change the party but you can change the policy", while the US would be "you can change the party, but not the policy"
Both are dystopian in their own ways, difference being China is an obvert dystopia, while the US is covert one drugging their populace to numb discontent etc.
I hesitate to get into the pull-out from Afghanistan or the judicial decision to rescind Roe v Wade; those are both things I strongly, vociferously disagree with. But they're both examples of public pressure changing policy (for better or worse) through the application of democratic processes available to all citizens.
Cheering those minuscule changes are akin to praising the CCP for beingat open to change with them ending there zero-covid policy.
At the end of the day these policies are slow and usually ineffective - all of your examples included.
I don't mean to get all edgy, and not to detract from your general point, but please don't forget that the U.S. supports (and has even installed) foreign regimes that do these (and worse) things - albeit to people in other countries.
On the foreign stage, America does and has backed horrendous dictators and fascists. As does and has every other empire in history. There is, though, a certain underlying theory in American politics - both right and left - that is disgusted with the notion of engagement in foreign wars and doesn't have the will to occupy foreign territory. This is what you would hope for as a natural result of a functioning democracy where people had a short tolerance for the personal deprivations inflicted by a state bent on imperial expansion.
No, it ain't Switzerland. I wish it were. But speaking with Syrian refugees and Lebanese and Tibetan dissidents and South Vietnamese and Cubans I've known in my life, I've kind of come to the conclusion that international relations are a jungle where most states are predators and most individuals are prey. America does at least give lip service to the notion that individuals shouldn't be preyed upon, and tries to export that meme.