Drumstick wrote:Anyone that has merely glanced at the US Politics thread by accident probably knows that this is something you are very passionate about.
It's just sad to see so many Americans who are more worried about the plight of the ultra wealthy and huge corporations than they are about average fellow Americans.
These people have been told Europe is a financial basket case because we have decent social provisions and they don't do even basic research to see how untrue that is because they believe in the Republican party and Fox News.
The UK for example lets the Communist party do whatever the hell they like because we know they have zero chance of even getting a single seat in parliament because everyone is sensible enough to know Communism isn't great. In the US however they've been conditioned to be gooseberry fool scared of Communism to a laughable degree that even merely saying you kind of agree with some aspects will start huge arguments which will likely involve the word Venezuela in a few seconds.
It's all very interesting to see otherwise sensible people voting to make themselves worse off and a few people richer and be so aggressively negative towards people who simply try and show them that there is another way to do things.