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I don't really disagree with any of this.
The system is rigged and entrenched - not open to change. It is bad, but not so bad that enough people will risk changing it.
But it is bad enough that people should risk changing it, Americans just aren't aware of this because they don't actually know how far behind the rest of the developed world they've fallen.
You pay more for healthcare for worse outcomes than any other developed nation, there are dirt poor countries with better healthcare and healthier people. https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/07/how-does-the-us-healthcare-system-compare-to-other-countries
Education has been gutted, in 2019 they merged the two highest levels of reading comprehension classification because not enough Americans were reading at the top level of comprehension, 54% of American adults read below a 6th grade comprehension level. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/?sh=6e4041fd4c90
You have practically no nationally recognised workers rights, you have no real employment protections, you have no guaranteed job security or benefits, no liveable minimum wage, and no food security in the richest nation on the planet. http://www.fairwork.gov.au
You don't get paid mataterity leave for a child that probably cost between 2.5k to 10k to have and you still get charged $50 for skin to skin contact with your own newborn.
You don't go to the doctors when you're unwell because you can't afford it, and your insurance doesn't actually insure you against the one thing it's supposed to; financial ruin.
"But my taxes go to the military"
What if I told you that universal healthcare, on it's own, would improve your national health and happiness standards, increase life expectancy, reduce the financial burden of the population, have enough left over to invest back into education, and you could still have the largest military in the world?
But Americans apparently don't want that. They want those things, but not if they have to share with their fellow Americans.
https://youtu.be/aNghg1Y-WIc