<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;#62; Americans are apathetic when it comes to making things better (healthcare, education, poverty rates, incarceration rates, living standards, etc.), because they think it&apos;s already &quot;the best&quot;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;A great many of my fellow Americans are worse than apathetic. If you point out areas where we can improve, some Americans will actively attack you through accusations of treason and verbal abuse. (Seems to be 10X worse in Texas than any other place I&apos;ve lived.) It&apos;s as if they&apos;re willfully trying their best to ensure they won&apos;t ever learn anything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>&amp;#62; Besides, American airport security is the &quot;gold standard,&quot; isn&apos;t it?&lt;p&gt;Depressingly, this is the same logic that keeps Americans from improving anything. Because they&apos;re constantly told they live in the best country in the world(TM), Americans are apathetic when it comes to making things better (healthcare, education, poverty rates, incarceration rates, living standards, etc.), because they think it&apos;s already &quot;the best&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why It&apos;s Time to Break the Code of Silence at the Airport</title><url>http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130213133819-332179-why-it-s-time-to-break-the-code-of-silence-at-the-airport</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iends</author><text>Generalizations like these are exciting. Let me try too...&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve yet to meet an American who didn&apos;t think at least one one of these, if not all, were completely broken.&lt;p&gt;Source: I live in America.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>&amp;#62; Besides, American airport security is the &quot;gold standard,&quot; isn&apos;t it?&lt;p&gt;Depressingly, this is the same logic that keeps Americans from improving anything. Because they&apos;re constantly told they live in the best country in the world(TM), Americans are apathetic when it comes to making things better (healthcare, education, poverty rates, incarceration rates, living standards, etc.), because they think it&apos;s already &quot;the best&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why It&apos;s Time to Break the Code of Silence at the Airport</title><url>http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130213133819-332179-why-it-s-time-to-break-the-code-of-silence-at-the-airport</url></story>