how come there's not a single well-developed and rich country which isn't a social democracy with leftist leaning?
>>56630275
Singapore?
Leftist leaning what?
Well Singapore, Hong Kong aren't but generally having a social democracy is the best thing for a country in terms of life quality and prosperity. The US doesn't have a left leaning social democratic tradition and they have massive problems because of it.
>>56630275
>>56630323
Hello
>>56630404
>tfw mine leans left
>>56630692
The USA is perfect and has no problems.
Any problems you see are just forms from your imagination.
The USA is perfect, the USA is great. Long live the Great USA.
How come countries with Nordic social democracy have the highest social mobility and the happiest populations?
What happened with American dream?
>>56630799
Mine does, too.
>>56630275
UAE, Oman and Qatar are well-developed and rich. Lets adopt sharia law.
>>56630893
This, tbqh.
Or lets just find massive amounts of oil.
>>56630275
>social democracy
Because instead we got
>DUDE WEED LMAO
>>56630831
>measuring happiness
>>56630692
>The US doesn't have a left leaning social democratic tradition
I'd be inclined to agree if you said it wasn't strong, but to say that it never had it simply isn't true.
>>56630893
>glorious Ibadi Oman
>Shari'a
triggered tbhfam
>>56630831
>How come countries with Nordic social democracy have the highest social mobility and the happiest populations?
Because they chose not to play the Great game.
>What happened with American dream?
A meme, never existed.
>>56630952
It was very weak, hence why you don't have fairly basic things such as socialized healthcare, paid maternity leave (mandated by the government) etc. Since you were so rich in the 19th century and laissez-faire practices were working back then there wasn't an environment ripe for a huge socialist movement. America is essentially "right wing the country".
>>56630692
>The US doesn't have a left leaning social democratic tradition and they have massive problems because of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights
>>56631345
You're partially right but you're wrong in the sense that the US does have those programs, they're just extremely limited to a portion of the population. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid
>there wasn't an environment ripe for a huge socialist movement
Actually, there was a huge democratic socialist movement during the Depression era which manifested itself through FDR. Actual socialism has been taboo since 1919.
