Our police state is beyond even Stalin's wildest dreams, our country is overflowing with guns, our homicide rate is skyrocketing, we shovel the homeless out of cities because we are embarrassed at the sight of them, and our prisons, run for profit, now have more people incarcerated than during the peak of the Stalin era.
It's all sad (all of it except for people getting guns, which I think is good, partially because of the homicide rates and things like that); but people ain't zombies! They talk about it, they try coming up with suggestions on how to fix it, etc. That's what you're doing right now! If you were living in the Soviet Union, you would be saying, "it's a lie, we're in paradise!";