For the record I don't love America. I don't love inanimate objects or chunks of earth. Anybody that does has a deeply unhealthy mental state. The only thing I ever love are people, and too many of them this country treats like garbage. Anything that's deeply flawed like America is needs to be fixed, period. I don't give a single **** whether something was better than before or if some place is better than other entities out there. All of that is entirely irrelevant. Any argument that boils down to, "I'm not as bad as the other guy", "I'm not as bad as my past self", or "other people do bad stuff too" is just another version of Whataboutism and isn't a valid reasoning for anything.