What you should take away from all this year is that countries that suppress information fare better on the world stage. When your country is transparent, all the faults get brought to the surface and the contrast between what you know of your country vs what you don't know of theirs has a lot of you claiming these other information suppressing countries are actually better.
Basically you get what you deserve for being a ing idiot. In this case "you" generally speaking, not you personally.