America, with its childish response to immigrants, as shown at left, stands in stark contrast to Switzerland, one of the most sophisticated and highly developed countries on Earth.
Switzerland features: Fabulous education, incredible, urbane culture, and a standard of living close to the very top of the world rankings.
Pertinent to this post, they have four official language–French, mostly spoken in the west, German in the north. Italian in the south, and Romansh, a variety of Latin, in the east. The truth, however, is that no one could possibly care what language you speak. If you want to speak Mandarin or Bulgarian, you’ll have trouble communicating with others, but that’s your problem.
The United States features: A considerable level of affluence, but entire regions that are drowning in poverty, ignorance, racial hatred, fanatical Christianity, lousy public education that gets worse with each passing year, and people who seem to have nothing better to do than heap even more pain on some of the world’s most miserable people.
Not sure about this.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School might struggle to identify a bear. Could be.
This is the intelligence level of the American electorate today.
The Chinese ownership of American farmland is less than 0.00036, or 0.036%. To put this into perspective, if the entirety of U.S. farmland were reduced to one acre, the Chinese government and business interests would own less than 15 square feet, about half the size of a small broom closet.
Yet, true to form, this is a huge issue for the MAGA base.
This guy is quite effective in talking to uneducated, conservative Americans, most of whom have never traveled to, or even read anything about the happiest countries on Earth.
If I were going to make a statement about the relationship between social justice and despotism, I would at least consider the lives of the people in places that consider social justice to be something of importance, and compare/contrast this to the list of the countries that are perennially at the top of the World Happiness Rankings.
What makes the people in New Zealand, Iceland, Costa Rica, Northern Europe, etc., so happy? Why do these are these nations suffer exactly zero despotism?
I would be completely ashamed of myself if I were to forward a political theory that had precisely no basis in fact.
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