I can think of some things I'd love to see changed here and more closely resemble a European nation. The appreciation of arts for one thing; health care systems, and a few other things.
I'd just like to see who has said it and see what they are talking about.
Switzerland is a well governed country. Ditto the Netherlands.
And in the last 20 years, have be become more socialist or less? Our decline is more and more government controlling our lives.
People move here for all kinds of reasons. If their job or profession didn't bring them here, their children's profession did and the parents followed to be near them.
The father of a late friend of mine was a Polish immigrant. He moved here, got a job at the auto plant, retired with a nice pension, and moved back to Poland. Why? Because according to him, you can live like a king in Poland with the money he got from his pension and Social Security. He was actually considered rich by some of his family and neighbors.
As a patient at the world famous Cleveland Clinic, I can tell you that if you go to their main campus downtown, it's the Americans who feel like foreigners. After new doctors get their education and experience here, they decide to stay instead of moving back home. These socialist countries don't pay their doctors shit compared to ours. It's one of the reasons we have the best providers from around the world.
Much, much less socialist. The union movement has been destroyed. Public sector unions are about all that's left. Your violent crime rate goes up every time you loosen restrictions on gun ownership. Welfare benefits are capped. You have the weakest labour laws in the first world.
Your tax code has the middle class subsidizing low wages to the working poor. The USA is a corporatist, state, not a socialist state and the bulk of your income and wealth goes to the top 10%. They own 80% of the wealth of the nation. It's 50% in Norway. 40% in Canada. Which is why both nations have a growing middle class, while your middle class is shrinking.
Government has always controlled your life. Much more so than any of the countries you call "socialist". You were subject to the draft until 1972. You're the only country in the first world with a shrinking middle class and a declining life expectancy. The USA is much lower on the personal freedom index that nearly any other First W
You keep talking about all of the money people can make in the USA. But it's meaningless to say you can live like a king on SS in Poland, because you can't live on Social Security in the USA. Unless you're planning on shipping your elder to Third World Countries.
You don't have the best medical providers in the world. You have the most expensive medical care in the world, but it wasn't much good during covid or you wouldn't have lost over a million people, and you're life expectancy wouldn't have been declining for the past 7 years.
Everything Republicans tell you about the rest of the world, is a lie. The Republican Party has completely screwed over working Americans and the middle class, for corporations and billionaires.
