Quote (fender @ Sep 21 2021 05:01am)
well, you're half way there. now you just have to stop pretending that the US is some kind of sentient being that consciously chose the route of shitty social nets for some mysterious reason, and admit that it's your corrupt political system that got you there, and then you finally managed to fully concede what i've been telling you for days now.
because here's the truth: the american people as a whole would LOVE themselves some of that sweet "socialism" (more equality, healthcare, affordable education, worker protection) - they just struggle whenever someone puts that label on it because, just like you, they were conditioned / brainwashed by corporate propaganda to reject anything by that name. meanwhile your rich set up a political system in which both of your major parties are largely owned by corporate interest that objects to meaningful change to the benefit of the working class, and the opposition to that corrupt system is easily overshadowed by artificially created partisan disagreement. in a fundamentally undereducated and ignorant country like the US that's enough to protect the elites - especially if you sprinkle in some over the top jingoism to make dumb people immediately defend that system because they can't distinguish valid criticism from personal insult, and want to protect their fragile ego.
basically:
https://i.imgur.com/nEIkTZT.jpegWe're going in circles at this point. The United States is a well-educated country, hence the high HDI, which incorporates years of schooling. And indeed it has a much higher percentage of its population with a tertiary education than does Germany. Your caricature of the United States isn't based in fact. I really recommend you visit the place, because you spend way too much time getting upset about American politics to be this loosely grounded in fact.