What do you want
Health outcomes, the US is number 31, although it spends the most.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_ranking_of_health_systems_in_2000
Education, USA is number 4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index
Freedom of the press US is 41st
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index
Homicide rate , you are 109th (murders per 100,000 people)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Here is one for you. New Zealand has 0.1 police officers per 100,000 people, the USA 243, yet US crime rates are MUCH higher.
Democracy, US is number 20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
Should we talk about how the US still has slave labour. Prisoners are forced to work or suffer significant penalties such as isolation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/07/23_...very_happening_in_modern_day_america_partner/
The US is certainly not about choice. Choice implies there is an ability to chose between multiple options.
This is certainly not true in the US.
Health, education, social mobility, etc etc etc are highly dependant on income, low income removes choice, and many of the social policies are designed to be punitive.
http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork....blic-policies-are-hurting-poor-families-maine
The only metrics the US is number 1 is prison population (per 100,000) and military spending (about 50% of the entire worlds spending)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
http://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison
The founding fathers were short sighted idiots.
The never envisioned todays weaponry, todays transportation facilities, todays communications, todays population and population density.
Something happening on the east coast can be known worldwide within minutes, not weeks/months.
Getting troops from the east cost to the west can happen in hours, not weeks/months
Muskets were high-tech , and even cannons had shorter range and less accuracy than modern sniper rifles. They also had no idea how cheap weapons/ammunition were to become
"The Springfield Rifle cost $20 each at the Springfield Armory where they were officially made."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Model_1861
"The average annual income for a manufacturing worker was $297 in 1860 (according to the US census)."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2914918/posts
And AR15 can be bought for less than $600, the
median household
income for the
United States was $53,657 in 2014
so an AR15 is about 1/10th of the cost in real terms.
If they had any idea what was going to happen to the US, and how gross its murder rate is, I think the founding fathers would have had a very different point of view.