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yeah the hostility started recently with trump and his ilk - fighting for nationalism of a bygone era.

if you can afford it - the US has excellent healthcare, you can also get organic food and dare I say better housing, private infra. what the US could/should improve on is have public clinics ie for preventative and quick care. public hospitals in the long run have many problems.

in the U.K for example - I used private healthcare, could've I have to the NHS - yeah but it means waiting times.

the southern states in the US are also what bring the quality of life down.

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To be fair, the UK isn’t high on my list either and I’ve lived in Finland and Austria before and I know people from china and their experiences with infrastructure and healthcare.

I am mostly comparing these places to all first world countries, rather than just the anglosphere.

Housing is the only one I can agree on. The place is so damn big that outside of places like New York, you can get 2/3 times the space for the same money, in a lot of places even more!

His ilk is the Heritage foundation, and not just nationalism, some fascism with a bit of 18/19th century great white man imperialism. They're arguably even the cause of this article as Raegan implemented many of their proposals that has lead to this.

>yeah the hostility started recently with trump and his ilk - fighting for nationalism of a bygone era.

It definitely didn't start with Trump, it just became policy under him.

Trump would never have had a chance if Americans didn't already blame immigrants for the effects of neoliberalism rather than the billionaires who put it into practice, and if the rural white populace weren't already afraid losing the cultural power of their demographic majority and identity. People forget how much of a joke candidate he was until racists took him seriously.

>if you can afford it - the US has excellent healthcare

If you can afford it, anywhere has excellent healthcare.

> If you can afford it, anywhere has excellent healthcare.

I don't think so, judging by the many heads of state and other filthy rich people choosing to get healthcare in the West instead of their local countries.

> Trump would never have had a chance if Americans didn't already blame immigrants for the effects of neoliberalism rather than the billionaires who put it into practice

That's by design.

The billionaires who own the media conglomerates have spent decades airing propaganda to that effect, as well as perpetuating the myth that anyone can become wealthy if they just work hard enough, with the implicit contra-positive being that the poor are poor because they are lazy, thus deserving their poverty.

Yep.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Lyndon B. Johnson

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