Altmer, you seem to have more of a problem with capitalism than America. Anyways, I would say any socialist or communist system would give even less choice, even if just because there are no competing companies.
I have a problem with both systems. The advantage of the latter is it (tries to) exterminate greed, but since that is an inherent human quality, it's not like that is not going to happen with communism either. My problem is with people that think they need everything they can get once they have the money to spend it on something. That is my problem. I don't think there is a real way to attach a monetary value (because it's so arbitrary) to any kind of object. But, of course, people need a way to show status and property and all that: I guess that's the way society rolls, ne? I would wholeheartedly prefer a society that doesn't know the concept of property. Oh well, not gonna happen. This is more a beef with humanity than any form of political system, I guess. The only advantage I see in socialism is that wealth and money is more evenly spread, so people who weren't born with rich parents or brains stand an equal chance of functioning in society.
I will give you the arrogance point, but that's been there since Ben Franklin and co. decided we should no longer be ruled by the British and set up our relatively new system of government. We are bound to feel arrogant because we were the first modern country to be openly entirely democratic.
Really? I would argue that's wrong, because you know what the constitution of the US was based on when Jefferson and his friends wrote it? Dutch books. He literally took ideas from that and put it into the American constitution. Democratic ideas have been around for longer than yesteryear. In fact, in Athens in olden times there were already the first rudimentary forms of democracy. The US are very quick to claim "WE DID IT", but they forget who they pinched it off.
And I would argue that no state is 100% democratic as well, if not directly then indirectly, but that is a matter for another topic.
Even then though, good health care, education, and army all stem from money. Is it our fault we took the industrial revolution to the extreme and used it to become the world's largest economy? It seems to have work well for most of America. There still is poverty, but than again, most of the poverty can be attributed to immigrants in port/international trade cities. Exceptions would be the slums that exist in Chicago, Detroit, and the Great Lakes cities and then New York, Boston, and New England cities.
Yes, but is there good health care for everyone? Is there good education for everyone? No, you can get only into the elite college if you have smacks of money to spend. There is a huge difference between private and public schools, hospitals for people who can pay the insurance and for people who can't. That is what I hate. No insurance because you're disabled and can't work properly? That's a bummer, you don't have any money so you can't get treated. It's simply not a fair system.
Anyways, you seem to have most of your problems with money and capitalism. That's about all you touched on. I say get used to it... Europe conquered the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia in the name of money. And back then, the money was for the king and who he felt like paying, not everyone else. So don't act like Europe wasn't ever money-crazed.
Sure, Europe is just as capitalistic as the US, and I don't like European society in that way as well. However, Europe has tried to make a mentality change when it comes to that: just look at countries like Sweden or Denmark, who have extremely well-paid for facilities, the US doesn't have that, now does it? You can always function (or have more chance of it) in Europe. There's always flaws, also where I live, that's humanity and society as it rolls, I guess.
