So...

Skilled ISIS video marketing succeeds in attracting avid recruits. US video marketers succeed in attracting avid buyers of beer and designer footwear.

Poor citizens of third world countries answer interviewers in good English. American students can't write a good paragraph,

Americans have to have their $5 Starbucks. Most of the world lives on $2 a day or less.

What each middle class American has in the house would fill a neighborhood among the poor.

A car might last 10-14 years in the US. It can last 50-60 years in Cuba.

I let myself think about things like this, but I still, sadly, am not sure what to do about it.