Well mainly by having Iranian friends who tell us their government is an evil regime, and when we try to insist our government is evil too, lecture us about our privilege to show they really mean it.

Because they look at a serial fraudster and see themselves in him.

No. Culture is downstream of institutions.

No thanks to the present government, who post about deporting slightly less than 1/3 the US population.

I think, reading this today, it probably describes what people like about the place.

Then that's not an opinion, it's a proposition aiming at fact, and you should back it up rather than restating it loudly and more slowly when asked for justification.

Most of them, since the vast majority of "welfare" programs exclusively assist people who are in work.

No they're not. You don't get to decide what other people desire.

That has absolutely nothing to do with civil liberties and everything to do with the adversarial legalism of the Common Law code and with property rights, which are quite a different matter. There are any number of Western countries in which individual or household property rights are not taken to constitute an arbitrary veto on otherwise legal state action: if a train is scheduled to get built, it gets built, and compensation is paid but vetoes cannot be exercised.