US citizens are indoctrinated from birth that the US is the best country in the world, the leader of the free world, the land of opportunity, the freest nation on earth, a place where anyone can achieve anything with hardwork, a morally righteous christian nation, an ideal democracy, etc.

All of those are empirically lies.

Dystopia - bad uptopia or the opposite of a perfect society.

This is the US. We are indoctrinated to believe the US is a utopia, yet there is ample evidence we aren’t. That seems to fit a bad or evil utopia.

I don’t really want to discuss how we got here or if it was on purpose. I don’t want to entertain illuminati conspiracy bullshit. I honestly want someone to help me change my view. I’d love to discover this isn’t true, but atm I believe it is.

Edit: There is more than one type and definition of dystopia. Here is a good primer:

https://expressiveegg.org/2017/01/03/four-kinds-dystopia/

semantic arguments are tedious and completely miss the larger point.

I don’t personally believe the US is a utopia, only that we are taught that it is.

Immigration is an extremely poor argument and I have addressed it already.