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Originally Posted by Glitch
Both Germany and France are socialist nations, as is the US since 1989. If a nation's government spends more than 50% of its budget on social programs, it is a socialist nation.
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That's
your definition, based on
your political tradition. But nobody in Germany thinks Germany is a socialist nation, nobody in France believes France is a socialist nation, and nobody in Brazil thinks Brazil is a socialist nation.
As I said, the political thinking traditions are very different.