What I find really ironic is the way "the land of the free" has actually become less free than the Danish "social democracy" in which I was raised. It may have higher taxes, but you (and business) have way more freedom to do your own thing, and pressures for "compliance" with fixed/regulated way doing things (or NOT doing thing) are farm more socially oriented than legislatively oriented.

No system is perfect, of course... but the corporate-political circus in the USA is getting increasingly scary and invasive.