the US was never "good". You can't have good in capitalism, which is based on slavery. Slavery never disappeared. Capitalism is the economic manifestation of patriarchy. Borrowing this pic from another poster in this thread:

Here are a few of my older pencil sketches for #portfolioday . #art #drawing #sketch

Finished! And first baby baby steps with Photoshop for the green background.. Portrait in pencils Nicholas Palmquist, dancer and choreographer @napalmquist . . . #dibujo #dessin #portraitsketch #portraitdrawing #pencildrawing #

March 2019. Based on a photo of Gabriela handal, but ass Mucha girl. Inked, watercolors, watercolor pencils, and some Touchnew markers and gold paint pen. . #art #dopaminesea #drawing #dessin #portrait #mydrawing #inkdrawing #penandink #watercolor #aquarelle #mucha #swissart #artsuisse

2018. Not perfect, but my dotwork ink portrait of Helmut Newton's photo of Jude Law. . #drawing #portraitsketch #mydrawing #inkdrawing #illustration #stipplingart #stippleart #dotshading #pointillism #judelaw #blackandwhiteart #helmutnewton #swissart #swissartist #peninkartists

Octopus. 2019. Pointillism ink work. #inkdot #pointillism #inkdrawing #octopus #inkillustration #swissartist #drawing #art

A collage of my work from 2019