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I don't think people from other cultures can truly understand or respect our ways of life, and I'm just starting to accept that for what it is.
I think you don't understand. Kandrathe writes as always about a supersocialist state like Cuba.
But let's just get back to Sweden, Holland or Denmark.
Please tell me what you know about the liberties of people in Denmark and compare them to what you know about the liberties in the US.
I mean what do you think? That we don't have freedom of speech? That we cannot choose?
Right, we cannot have guns, and we cannot get our driver licence when we are just starting puberty.
Th only thing socialist about the countries is a better social security system and health care for everybody, less poverty and an average standard of living that is higher.
Furthermore if we talk about Holland. We are allowed to smoke soft drugs....maybe for you it is a good thing that in the US you are not allowed (like for me it is a good thing we cannot carry firearms) but both things are a liberty. Also to be able and to go and drink in a bar before at the same time the government thinks you are old enough to go fight a war abroad. Again, you can agree with these things, but don't say we have less liberties than you.
To stress it again (because this is often misunderstood here) I am not talking about Cuba, I am talking about western europe).
ps, of course you started this thread, so maybe the topic IS real hard core socialism.......but that seems not a very likely scenario to me. So if you really meant that the US starts looking like Cuba, please tell me and I will stop posting in this thread.