Americans have been trained to expect so little compared to the citizens of other advanced democracies.
Socialism is an economic system. Democracy is a political system. You can have both.

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Being trained to accept it is bad enough. But the way they tirelessly defend it really is incredible, especially when it adversely affects a lot of them personally.
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YES WE ARE free and WHEN we got certain accont I got free card dont pay ANYTHING and The free card is also for taxi to hospitals. Even for The medecin I got free card. DONT be afraid for medicare for all is not dangerous. Peace and love from Katarina 🇸🇪 🌞
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No way. I disagree. Americans might not get much out of electoral and political dividends / benefits. But trust me we’re getting better than what other countries are getting.
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I have family there. Didn’t used to be a fan because of the high taxes. But they have refused to wreck their economy with Covid lockdowns (or aggrevate their citizenry with Mask mandates.) So I’m coming around, they are doing something right.
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Can we have that but without the gun laws?
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You need to spend a couple of years dealing with the VA and this will haunt you.
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Americans don’t deserve it if 80% of them are obese. In Europe if one can’t fit in a public chair they think to themselves “I need to lose weight” In America one thinks “they need to make bigger chairs”
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Social democracy works. Crony capitalism and democracy are diametrically opposed to each other and only lead to corruption and war.
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Sure you can have both socialism and democracy. What you can't have is crony capitalism and democracy. They are diametrically opposed to each other.
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Americans lack imagination. Maybe it is our jingoistic public school system that teaches our kids that there is no country/people/political system better than ours 🙄🇺🇸🤡
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