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Sounds like an excellent opportunity to get citizens better healthcare.

The_tall_midget posted...

All you need to do is look at how fast Europe and democrat ran states are turning into super shit holes to further prove the failure of socialism and the left.

People have been telling me this for as long as I've paid attention to politics and it has never once been true since the end of the Cold War.

The top 15 states by murder rate are, in order, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, Maryland, Arkansas, Alaska, Alabama, Mississippi, Illinois, South Carolina, Tennessee, New Mexico, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Ohio. That's three blue states, two swing states (and that's being generous given that one of them is Ohio, which has been trending red lately), and a full ten Republican states, including some of the reddest states in the country.

By contrast, the 15 lowest are New Hampshire, North Dakota, Maine, Idaho, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Nebraska, Vermont, Utah, Massachusetts, Oregon, Wyoming, Hawaii, Connecticut, and New York - five red states, three swing (all blue-leaning), and seven Democrat.

Left-wing states are simply safer than their right-wing peers.

And, of course, the US as a whole has a soaring murder rate of 5.35 per 100k - clocking in just ahead of powerhouses like Ecuador, Ukraine, and Afghanistan, but not quite matching heavyweights like Pakistan, Lebanon, or Cuba in terms of safety. Meanwhile, the socialist and democratic-socialist European states manage to do pretty well for themselves - Finland (not coincidentally the most gun-friendly socialist country) is the closest to the US, with roughly a quarter of the murder rate (1.35 per 100k), but not quite matching Sweden (1.08), Denmark (0.98), Greece (0.75), the Netherlands (0.55), Norway (0.51), or Iceland (0.3).

Meanwhile, the World Happiness Report's top 10 of happiest countries is dominated by European socialist countries (top 10 2019 countries are, in order, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, and Austria). Most have comparable GDP per capita (Norway actually beats out the US, which is #10 overall, while the Netherlands, Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark are all in the top 20). Norway, Sweden, and Denmark all have higher median household incomes than the US (and the Netherlands and Finland aren't far behind) and virtually all the socialist nations enjoy much lower levels of income inequality than the US. Norway is the highest ranked country on the Human Development Index, with Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands also in the top 10. All of those, plus Denmark, are higher than the US (which ranks 13th).

All these "super shitholes" honestly sound vastly more pleasant to live in than America, to be quite honest...
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