Europe isn't as left-winged as we, Americans think (Thank God!) (salaries, taxes)
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On a scale, yes, Europe as a whole is a little closer to socialism than the US. However, that doesn't mean Europe is socialist, not even close. Both places are capitalist societies.
corporate america and social conservatives are bedfellows in america and its corporate america which benefits most from this , this is much less the case in europe where working class conservative people are unlikely to be worried about how much tax donald trump is paying , working class conservatives in america have an incredible capacity for voting against their own interests
I 100% agree that right-wing is totally different on each respective continent. Particularly with the gun culture that conservatives in the States tie their values around.
However, I'd argue the liberals are quite similar. I don't see the politics of San Francisco being THAT different from Amsterdam, for example. Gay rights, pro-environment, anti-corporation, etc.
just about every country in the developed world and half the countries on the developing world these days have populations with better access to education and healthcare.
Americans absolutely REFUSE the idea of the US having free college education and free health care, and many think that alone would turn the US into a socialist commie nation!
Free?!
Are aliens from another planet paying for all those professor and doctor salaries?
Are aliens from another planet paying for all those professor and doctor salaries?
Of course not, but considering that pretty much every nation has some sort of tax in place with which education could be paid for and that the actual amount of tax money used for education in Europe is relatively small, it's still cheaper than going to a no-name US university and paying $50.000 a year.
Of course not, but considering that pretty much every nation has some sort of tax in place with which education could be paid for and that the actual amount of tax money used for education in Europe is relatively small, it's still cheaper than going to a no-name US university and paying $50.000 a year.
And the thing about that is, we wouldn't even need to raise taxes to do it. We just need to redistribute them. If the money we spent on our war machine was spent on health care and education, the American versions would probably be the envy of the world.
you vote in the interests of corporations , dont get me wrong , im not a socilist and i admire the american inherent distrust of the state but in real terms , wages for average working americans have decreased since 1980 while the NET worth of those at the top has soared , all with the backing of the average voter
that says to me that the media in america has done an incredible job of persuading the majority to step forward and take a bullet so the donald trumps of this world dont have to
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