Let that think in. Us is more "progressive" then Sweden. But we are definitely moderate, I've been told by the all knowing reddit comment section that the US would be considered on the right in Europe.
Depends on the issues. On almost any economic issue, the US would be to Europe's right. But on stuff like race and gender, I've yet to encounter anyone who is as whacked as the average American left-winger (and even some right-wingers), and I live in a big city in a fairly left-wing country.
The Americans who think they love Europe, have just as much of a skewed view as the right-wingers who think it's communist with immigrants having wrecked every part (only parts). I saw a comment on /r/politics about a far-left American who wanted to come here, because he saw it as a left-wing utopia, but was very disappointed by how conservative and (of course) 'racist' people were. Good riddance.
I was surprised when I discovered abortion in Germany was illegal past the first trimester, abortion in the first trimester required counseling similar to what the evangelical right have been pushing for, and gay marriage was illegal until 2015. American shitlibs treat that country like it's some sort of utopia.
A lot of the constraints that European states put on their social safety net to make it work wouldn't be acceptable to the American left or Americans in general. For example the American left likes to talk about free university education in Germany, but the regiment of standardized testing they use to weed students out of attending university and funnel them into trade schools and the like would be completely unacceptable to a lot of people even on the right.
Let that think in. Us is more "progressive" then Sweden. But we are definitely moderate, I've been told by the all knowing reddit comment section that the US would be considered on the right in Europe.
Depends on the issues. On almost any economic issue, the US would be to Europe's right. But on stuff like race and gender, I've yet to encounter anyone who is as whacked as the average American left-winger (and even some right-wingers), and I live in a big city in a fairly left-wing country.
The Americans who think they love Europe, have just as much of a skewed view as the right-wingers who think it's communist with immigrants having wrecked every part (only parts). I saw a comment on /r/politics about a far-left American who wanted to come here, because he saw it as a left-wing utopia, but was very disappointed by how conservative and (of course) 'racist' people were. Good riddance.
I was surprised when I discovered abortion in Germany was illegal past the first trimester, abortion in the first trimester required counseling similar to what the evangelical right have been pushing for, and gay marriage was illegal until 2015. American shitlibs treat that country like it's some sort of utopia.
A lot of the constraints that European states put on their social safety net to make it work wouldn't be acceptable to the American left or Americans in general. For example the American left likes to talk about free university education in Germany, but the regiment of standardized testing they use to weed students out of attending university and funnel them into trade schools and the like would be completely unacceptable to a lot of people even on the right.
Male homosexual acts were illegal in Germany until like 1995.
That's funny, I view that US as being not traditional and (socially) conservative at all.