>>WOW! Obviously you have never served in the armed forces for your country nor have you lived for any duration in any other country than the U.S. other than to visit.
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>You assume correctly.
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>>No disrepect intended to other nations, but if you had, I do not think you would consider the U.S. being grouped with other nations as a part of THEIR country and government an option.
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>Can you rephrase this. I'm not sure what it means (though it could be my dyslexia acting up)
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>>No other government can come close to this one. While it is NOT perfect (FARRRRRRRRRR from it) it is the best there is to date and hopefully will get better.
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>What about Canada or the UK? Germany or the Netherlands? What makes the US better than the governments of those countries?

Simply this:

If you had lived in any other nation, I do not think you would be willing to have the U.S. be absorbed INTO another country and lose our government, freedom, rights, etc.

There is no nation that compares to ours. Part of that is freedom and democracy but part of that is capitalism. I have lived in the Nederlands (Den Haag), Germany (Frankfurt, Schweinfurt, Wurzburg, Giebelstadt) but not Canada (only visited) nor the UK (did not get a chance to even visit there I'm afraid).

The only thing holding ANYONE back here in our country is lack of personal drive. While almost everyone has experienced some type of prejudice at one time or another (either age, gender, race, or whatever someone can think of) as a nation we are getting better. Today, NOTHING compares to the lack of freedom in other countries. So much is taken for granted here, but we have earned everything we have. It continues to be the best government available simply because we refuse to settle. Things are not so great in many countries. As an example, being stopped by the police in Germany, Panama, Nederland, or practically any other country is not like being stopped by the police here in the U.S. If we are profiled here in the U.S. or not given our due process under the law, we have recourse and will, more likely than not, eventually prevail (and many times come out richer in the end after the civil suits if necessary). In other countries that is NOT the case. If you are stopped by the police in other countries usually it is guilty until proven innocent (not the reverse) and assumed even by the public that you are guilty from the start. I was stopped in other countries for being on the streets (in my car driving from one city to another) during the middle of the night. Very strange behavior I was told. You do NOT want to run a red light in some countries or speak to the police unless spoken to when you are stopped by the them. I've been shot at by the police and chased in other countries. In many countries they can do whatever they want to and typically do. There is no legal system unless you have $ or connections to this day in many places. As for the differences in other freedoms, sheesh, where to start?