A country which values it's citizens health and happiness in measurable, quantifiable ways.
A country which ensures it's citizens can be educated and follow their passions to financial success.
A country which allows even poor citizens to take risks like opening a business or going to school _(if you can call that a risk)_ without going into crippling debt or becoming homeless if you fail.
A country where a health emergency won't leave middle class workers in crippling debt.
A country where a job is enough to ensure you can have a roof over your head and food on the table.
Scandinavia may or may not match all of those, but that's not my point - it feels to me Americans don't want this. To me Americans value "freedom" (as ephemeral as that may be) and low taxes so heavily that the above items are nearly irrelevant if they conflict with that.
This isn't a dig at America, rather i'm simply saying maybe i need to stop voting so "lefty" and find some place more inline with myself?