People of the U.S lost it because they allowed this to happen by "not caring about it". And the whole privatized everything is bollocks. See what the costs of "health care", "college education" and most importantly "how the cops" have become. Health care and education has to be free if the people in the society is to remain intelligent. Even by the scale of economics, providing with good health care for free would cost much less that what it currently costs. The police is severely lacking accountability that it much needs. Read the original article linked in here. Think about it.