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 Are you mad that laws aren't self-enforcing? 
 No. I'm mad that no one cares enough about the Constitution to stop the bureaucratic state from harassing US citizens. Congressional committees are there now to protect the BS instead of representing us. 
 I mean, one of the primary components of a former and possibly repeat president's message to voters has been the danger of the deep state. Something like half of the country is at least not opposed to this idea to such a degree that they'd vote against him for saying it and many support him because he does say it.

Idk, maybe I'm not totally blackpilled, but the fact that we have the kind of opposition to this in America that frankly just doesn't exist in Europe, is primarily due to our robust free speech protections. And we have an economic system that offers a single person with a particular value set to straight up buy one of the most popular social media platforms just to prevent it from censoring people's speech.

Granted, he isn't perfect about it, but it did happen. It happened in America. 
 I guess I don't see enough of what's happening in Europe or assume it's all done at the orders of the American deep state in their effort to achieve comprehensive influence.