Reply To: Donald Trump
And yet…the evidence shows that when limited social programs and health care systems are employed in every single developed-democracy in the world except America (dozens of them)…the system doesn’t remotely resemble your cliche strawman description of it. I was born in and have lived in five countries with social-democracy (Germany, Canada, Belgium, UK, Spain) and I have never encountered anything like your description. I am middle class and if anything the middle classes have grown and become more affluent and no I am not taxed to death and yes, the unemployment rates are usually low and no the middle class isn’t being attacked nor has it, over the last 50 years, disappeared.
The disconnect between the way it works and the disaster that many Americans believe will happen if implemented is astonishing. It is pretty much on the same scale as committed communists. Despite the existence of dozens of communist experiments in the past in many different shapes and sizes they all ended up in catastrophy and yet there are still people convinced it will work if it could just be done in the right way. There is simply no difference between deluded communists and those terrified of social-democracy. The evidence says one thing yet the predictions insist on the opposite.
Meanwhile millions of Americans are pointlessly suffering from poverty and unattended medical problems and homelessness and hunger and desperation…for no defensible reason. Just walk around Detroit, Baltimore or Buffalo and you’ll see the result of “it’s not my problem”.
