2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WTF is wrong with Americans? [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Instead of attacking Republicans (they are generally worthy of attack, but as a population are as mixed as any other, some are willingly complicit, some are misled and propaganized by massive RW media infrastructure, some are just genuinely more conservative in nature and have human needs just like we do), you should be attacking the Republican's OWNERS.
That's the source of the problems listed in the OP. Many of those owners, or similar ones with a preference for Democrats, are owners of the Democratics. Every single item in the OP is that way because corporate interests want it that way. Recognizing that, and fighting it at that level, is the only way to get a society supportive of human needs as the nordic countries are described in the OP.