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Are you:
Then sure, it's for you. If one of these doesn't apply, the Founding Fathers would like you sold on the soap box they used to call for liberty to ring. America was made by out of touch elites for out of touch elites. Washington and Jefferson and Madison were not some common folk who worked their way up. Most were landowning slave drivers who raped the slaves they said they loved and didn't mistreat.
Some, like Franklin, were poor and worked their way up with connections and wit. And he never had any meaningful positions of office.
Is 4/8 not good enough?
7/8 is not good enough for America. You could be a cis-male stiraght white American who is mentally and physically well, but poor, and America doesn't do enough for you.
If you are everything here but black? America hates you.
If you are everything here but disabled? America hates you.
If you are everything here but born female? America hates you.
If you are not the normalized status-quo of what America (or any country) thinks is the default, you're treated unfairly from the top down, and then socially from the top down. It's part of why intersectionality is important.