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The US and Scandinavian countries are hardly comparable.

It's like saying, "Hey Ethiopia, you should just be more like Canada and that would solve all your problems!"

Actually the comparison is fine. They're both similarly developed first world economies.

The US isn't Ethiopia. It has ample resources to solve all its problems given the political will. It just needs to overcome its irrational fear of the welfare state.

It's not an irrational fear of the welfare state, it's an ideological opposition to collectivism from the half of the country that are ideologically individualistic.

You say potayto, I say potahto

If you can't agree there's a difference between an irrational fear, and a core value, well then there's little point bothering to converse, you're too closed minded.

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