Do people really want America to be more like Europe?

I do.. I've been to Europe 5 times, including once for 5 months..

Instead of K-12, we'd have K-16.. Nothing revolutionary. Young and old are covered, now those in the middle should be helped, too. But of course, we could require students to attend 60%, or to receive passing grades.. People have to understand we live in a global world, and many countries have free college, so its very difficult to compete with the many people with medical degrees when the average young adult leave school with at least $50,000 in debt, and with jobs that pay so little. $7.25/hr is the minimum wage, and that isn't counting our war/wallstreet taxes, gas, child care (other countries have it for free), health care... Europe has great public transportation, and to an extent, Australia.

There's no reason to have 50 million in poverty, millions who are homeless. 3 million veterans/pawns are homeless, but are only used to pass an agenda for the top 1%. There's no reason why the richest country in the history of man can poison the water, and who knows what other cities have problems. Pollution doesn't avoid someone because they voted against a carbon tax.. What's the point of a country? We should co-operate more, instead of having a race to the bottom where even the rat in the race is still a rat.

I'm flexible. I'm not just "left".. I don't like guns, but I don't spend any time with that topic. Same with immigration. I can't stand censorship and political-correctness (the ultimate racism - establishment telling minorities what they can or cannot handle).. If it was my way, the necessities would be automatically covered, under a Republican or Democrat - no concern. Housing, Food, Health Care, Education. With this, you could get rid of the minimum wage. Because our manufacturing is overseas, there might be jobs that pay very little, but asks for very little.

We need to get out of all these wars. Trump duped many of you when he vetoed the genocide of Yemen. One of the few bi-partisan things that actually passed both the House and Senate, because we're looking like murdering thugs. "That's how we'll pay for it" - get the money out of the wars, prison, pharmaceutical subsidies - but I also like freedom of choice, and so let them sell Hydrocodone over the counter, but enough of the BILLIONS of corporate welfare.. Even when we spend on a ton on research and development, it goes to help them. And if we're going to bail anyone out, it shouldn't be Wall Street, or banks in general.. Bail out the people. We could have spent a fraction buying up bad mortgages.

A majority of Americans cannot afford a $400 EMERGENCY..

If it went down that far into the crapper, I'd have to move to another planet. I'd rather die than live in Europe Jr.

It shouldn't be a case of wanting the US to be more like Europe. Honestly, I want each country to do its own thing and retain its unique identity. I don't want to live in a boringly homogenous world.

Still, every country should seek to make its people as prosperous, as equal, as fairly treated, as safe, as healthy and as free as possible, and as far as I'm concerned, social-democracy is by-and-large the best system for accomplishing and balancing all those, occasionally competing, needs.

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The only people who would want America to be more like Europe come from these 3 categories:

1.) Globalist assholes who are greedy and want to take over the world in a soft coup and form a 1-world government (which will never happen) and feel the need to take America down to the same level as Europe both financially, demographically, and politically, so that they won't have anyone fight back when their boots go down on the peasants' necks. (That won't happen either).

2.) Arrogant, America-hating jerks who LIVE in America, are [sometimes] native-born, and don't know how good they actually have it, and have been brainwashed into thinking Europe does everything better.

3.) Idiots who CAME from Europe, who think America would be better off if it were like the craphole they came from. Believe me, most European immigrants are happier in America BECAUSE we're not like the countries they came from.

I do not
We do our thing here in The States, let the various Euro countries do their own thing
Our relations are friendly enough, let's not push a marriage...we snore and like our guns over here lol!

What many Americans don't seem to be aware of or understand, though, is that "Europe" isn't actually all one culture in anything.

I know that's confusing (and I don't mean that with sarcasm). Europe is not only a continent but also has "The EU" - so it's easy to believe that it's all kind of just one country and every aspect of life, culture, law, government must be the same all over "Europe."

It's not.

Despite the relatively Johnny-come-lately political entity named "The EU" and its attempts at over-arching all encompassing laws and standards, "Europe" still actually consists of different countries who design their own laws, regulations, domestic policies on many things, and more to the point each has their own extremely distinct culture, social mores, lifestyles....

It astounds me every time an American does not even seem to realize this. It's not an actual "united states of Europe" like the US has separate states but basically the same general lifestyle. It's more akin to Canada, the US and Mexico all actually being "America" but everyone knows each of those countries live quite differently from the next and would never dream of conflating them together when talking about the list of issues you name.

Visit for example the UK then visit Italy. Or Sweden. You will find that even the people act completely differently let alone all the other issues official and otherwise.

Almost everything you state in your OP is something that actually VARIES from country to country -- doesn't exist in some, exists in others.