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Saying something over and over does not make it true.

No, it's sadly true, the US is regarded as having an old, quaint, constitution that has deep flaws.

Eg, an inability to enforce anti corruption at state and federal levels and a weak ineffectual process of bringing heels to boot.

Yet it has produced the most fruitful country the world has ever seen. The genius of the document is that it assumes the corruption of a centralized power and provides the proper counter measures to return the power to the people.

The country that didn't even make the top 20 of the Happiest Countries in the World 2026 list?

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> provides the proper counter measures to return the power to the people.

Wake me up when that happens.

Happiest country.. there is an objective measure

Happiest, Fruitful .. on par for objectivity really.

Glad you noticed.

And you won’t believe it but the US didn’t make J D Power Best Places To Work either. In fact, I’m told that the Barclays Certified Happy Places To Live Brought To You By Standard Chartered doesn’t list a single American city.

To the country's credit, it is rocketing up the 2026 banana republic charts.

JD Power ranking American fashion brands now? Not bad.

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