State sanctioned religion, Monarchy, fascism, and socialism seem to be altogether incompatible with the way Americans tend to approach politics.
Monarchy? Intolerable? Nearly 50% of the country tried to elect Trump. Who has gone on record to say that they should just get rid of the election altogether and just let him rule? The notion that they are against a monarchy is an ignorant position.
A great deal of people who came to the United States evidently considered such notions intolerable, and the American people are not often predisposed to view their government as a leviathan like the famous English philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
I would agree maybe some on them, but people didn't just come to escape political or religious oppression, some came to propagate religious and political oppression in a new place where they could get away with it. Some came to escape famine and the like and didn't have a particular opinion on the matter save, "If I can feed my family and I" This is an oversimplification of even what the majority came to America for.
Citizens of the United States would rather eat grass than live in the knowledge that they've exchanged their national sovereignty to the heads of state in exchange for security, a prerequisite to the philosophy of "social democracy".
Their "National Sovereignty" such as what? Is it people getting free health care? Making it to where emergency medical care isn't one of the top bankrupts? Make it to where they can't just rob victims of their earnings for something that usually isn't their fault? Perhaps you mean gun regulation, which isn't socialist in the first place, or free college? None of it is, and this sort of concern is unwarranted. Literally, this was something somebody said and nobody bothered to fact-check and now everyone i spewing it.
Our government must have reasonable justification for its current state, whereas an Englishman must have reasonable justification for their current freedom.
To do what? Exchange the vague term national sovereignty? An Englishman would not have to have justify their freedom, in fact, a document established in 1689 in England called, "The Bill of Rights" (Hmmm) established Constitutional Monarchy and set the same grounds for rights long before America. Not to mention the several several documents and procedures America copied from England. No. This is not true.
Americans aren't on a common spectrum with predominant thinkers of Germany and even though they share common law they have quite a different relationship with the State than the subjects of the United Kingdom.
Obviously not, that was my entire point, that people in America have a political view, on average, which is shifted far further right than the average in Europe. Things such as free health care are pretty standard there, whereas here it is a supposed call out of socialism. I think maybe people might have forgotten their inalienable rights, "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Pretty hard to be living, if one trip to the hospital takes all of your savings.
Perhaps that is why Americans consider "socialism" objectionable, not purely as a matter of effective policy, but the means of progress that Europeans may be conditioned to.
That was never my point, my other point was that people tend to mislabel socialism as what is really standard left values, not even far left, moderate left in most cases. It is incorrect that what they are currently objecting to is socialism, its not, what they are objecting to is focusing on actual people instead of pure profit as they have. Not to say capitalism is something which should be abolished, but as all things that have the power to harm massive amounts of people, it must be regulated.
