Unemployment, and so on

[eppie]

We don't rate that badly. The Netherlands and Canada are on the top of the spectrum. You might want to be more concerned with some of your eastern neighbors, and the whole of Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Re..._situation
7 out of 150 seats are for anti abortion parties(etc) and 21 for a party which would not initiate such discussion but would enable stricter abortion laws.
Then there are a few parties which would support these things after having traded them out for other issues (VVD/PVV).

OF course our parties are not so extremist. I guess even the small christian parties are comparable or more moderate than the democrats in the US. (but that is my opinion).

So yes it is a discussion in the Netherlands but more because we always were the (or on of the) most progressive countries in the world. And where in the US there is still an ongoing fight for the rights of euthanasia, abortion, gay rights, in the Netherlands at the moment we seem to be going the other way again. (because of a continuous movement to the right in dutch politics for the last 20 years).

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You might find you like it, or you might find the US is not as bad as you think.

I think most of people in Europe will see that the US is not as bad as their uninformed minds think.
However probably most uninformed Americans would see that the US is not as good as they think.