Is easy to blame the leadership for failures and mistreatment, but it's not always true. People are in the equation.
It seems many in the US and maybe elsewhere believe they have an inalienable right to freedom. Freedom to abuse that freedom. Freedom isn't free. Freedom came and still comes today at terrible prices all over the world. A citizens price for freedom is to respect other peoples rights and the responsibility to know their own limits within our rights.
Too many people lose sight of the cost of freedom and take it for granted.