Stripping away rights from women

Particularly during a 250 year anniversary or anything

The wealthy can enjoy themselves, but not the poors.

The British have always based their government on a similar mechanism, despite the occasional protest:

"Listen: strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."

It doesn't work with bicycles either.

For everyone who doesn’t know. An anecdotal summary (look up yourself for facts, i am just recalling from memory)

Irans democratic elected ruler tried to nationalise the oil industry which was largely controlled by the UK and US who then staged a coup to reinstate and support the monarchy in return for securing them that control.

This made a lot of people in Iran very angry with the West.

That monarch went kinda mad with oppressive power to the point that the clergy was the only real opposition left. Which created the conditions that started the islamic revolution.

And we seemingly learned nothing as one of the Trump regime early ideas for the current war with Iran was to reinstate and back the monarchy with the current last descendant living in the US.

I genuinely don't know if you can.

You could say that it was showing a reflection of the sky.

The USA is huge. IDK what country you're from, but I'll use France as a point of comparison because it's large and the capital isn't really in the center.

Bayonne->Paris is about the farthest you can be from the capital while still living in mainland France. That's 770 km.

This is shorter than the distance from Washington DC->Atlanta, which is in one of the original 13 colonies. It's pretty close to the distance from DC->Indianapolis, but that's still within the 1776 USA borders (albeit, an unorganized territory of the 13 colonies).

Add in the Louisiana purchase and various conquests westward, and a Californian visiting DC can be like visiting Paris from Kuwait.

It's reasonably common for USians to visit their state capital at some point in our lives, but visiting DC is definitely an upper-middle class vacation unless you happen to live in a nearby state already.

Downside of the cost of living and size of the country. You actually are very lucky if you can travel.

Correct. Most can't travel to another state. We are more or less enslaved. Vacation doesn't exist. Housing isn't available. You'd be better off living in mexico, trust me.