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Because they like things fine just the way they are. They do not care about our crumbling infrastructure and income inequality, nor the level of corruption in Washington. They want to keep things just the way they are, but build a stupid, money wasting wall on the Southern border.
You evidently have not been listening to the conservative agenda on infrastructure.
As for mandatory military service, although it's very much in decline in practice - that was a major step towards equal treatment under the law when introduced. (Also, I thought we were all lame-o civilian misfits just waiting for the US to come to our aid?)
Used to be that cities and shires were required to enroll a certain number of young men per year, and you can probably guess who went: Those with no money, no connections, no options. It was locked down, not just by law but by constitution, that every able-bodied man carries a personal responsibility to take part in the defense of the realm. Of course the upper and middle class squealed like stuck pigs at the thought of their little darlings having to spend time with common workers and farmers, but I suspect everybody benefits from having to actually meet those of your countrymen you'd normally pretend don't really exist.
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It's hard to believe I read this in the Atlantic, but it's an article that downplays socialism and social mobility in Denmark after a study was conducted back in 2016.
Low-income Danish kids are not much more likely to earn a middle-class wage than their American counterparts. What’s more, the children of non-college graduates in Denmark are about as unlikely to attend college as their American counterparts.
In other words, there isn't much true social mobility in socialism. So...
If that’s true, how does Denmark rank number-one among all rich countries in social mobility? It’s all about what happens after wages: The country’s high taxes on the rich and income transfers to the poor “compress” economic inequality within each generation: When the rungs on the economic ladder are closer together, it’s easier to move a little bit up (or down) over the course of a generation.
So it not that socialism produces a better economy... the social mobility is based on the rich giving money to the poor. Guess what that leads to? Here is the 3rd major point gleaned from the study.
The third big idea is that Denmark’s welfare policies might reduce its citizens’ incentives to go to college. In the early 1990s, when Denmark raised the minimum age of eligibility for social assistance, college enrollment among Danish twentysomethings fell below its trajectory. Based on this finding, the researchers conclude that welfare policies may reduce college enrollment. Denmark makes it more comfortable to be poor and less lucrative to be rich, so many young people decide to end their education after high school.
Now when I read the underlined, this is how I read it, and this is why the American system, while not perfect, is better.
Because the incentive of making your own profit is available in America, there will always be a great deal of motivation to make new medicine to cure cancer, to make a better car, to make a killer app for smartphones, to make learning easier, to make better music... So we go to school and hopefully learn more about what we love to do, and make a living doing it while making the lives of others better.
In Denmark, they are not as motivated because they are forced to give the fruits of their labor away to people who don't do much. So there will never be as much innovation and drive as there should be - because they can exist comfortably without doing anything.
Basically the article is an essay on the basics of human nature. If a person is brought up around people who do nothing but live comfortably, that person won't do much either. If you around higher income college grads, those people are likely to follow suit. This blows away the whole Denmark socialism and the high social mobility myth.
Universities and colleges in America make a lot of money promoting education but my question is what do they do after? How many drop out halfway through? It's not going to college that counts, it's finishing it and the job you land with that education afterward. I'd have to compare that before I make a judgment.
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Because they like things fine just the way they are. They do not care about our crumbling infrastructure and income inequality, nor the level of corruption in Washington. They want to keep things just the way they are, but build a stupid, money wasting wall on the Southern border. 
Better pack you bags.
