Well, look, the idea that the pandemic represented a political opportunity was never realistic, and in fact people were justified in recoiling from the perception that others saw it as such (this is literally the whole basis of the "plandemic" conspiracy theory)
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One of the reasons I think the American left was filled with such despair is we've got a historically unusual degree of awareness of how, say, Europe does it (but not all the problems of European politics or the vast spans of time achieving the European social net took)
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Europe is seeing a massive surge in ethnonationalism and fascism right now because *that's exactly what the socdem welfare state does when under strain and verging on collapse* It is incredibly predictable and regularly predicted
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As soon as the money starts running out people start asking "Well where's all of it going? We're paying for the welfare of THOSE people?"
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Oh yeah, absolutely, but to frustrated and despairing American leftists a lot of that stuff is invisible - they compare their struggles to the stuff their overseas counterparts enjoy and rage about how they're being denied their obvious due.
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We really don't talk enough about how for all the "US is a right-wing country by global standards" memes, Europe is incredibly conservative on immigration by the standards of US politics, and this is a completely predictable result of how their social democracy works
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People who believe they have an obligation to pay for the well being of all of their countrymen get VERY touchy about what exactly the definition of "their countrymen" is
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Yeah. And I think on here, in particular, we're dealing with a far more idealistic and frankly cosmopolitan segment of the population than necessarily is the norm even in Europe.
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Yeah if you're still talking about Europe as just a straight up better place than America where they don't have our stupid cultural hangups and run things based on compassion and common sense... You literally do not read the news, and haven't for over a decade
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