[bruinbirdman]

"Americans who have risen from poverty to become qualified tradesmen or entrepreneurs generally believe that they have a right to put what wealth they produce back into their own businesses, rather than trusting governments to spread it around among those judged to be deserving. "

IOW, upward mobility, The American Dream.

In EUrotopia, the state decides who can participate in the state run capitalist system. The opportunity for upward mobility is decided by the state well in advance of placement.

yitbos

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

With the progressive income tax, property taxes, inventory and licensing fees & regulations to make sure VERY FEW ever rise out of wage labor. Statism keeps people down and under control.

[x_plus_one]

Liberal politics is now – over there as much as here – a form of social snobbery

Our land mass is so much bigger than theirs that the paradigm is irrelevant. You want to live in liberal-snobbery land you are free to do so at your own risk of self-hating self-defeatism and a lowered birth rate.