Liberals: if the socialist Europe you love is so great, why did your ancestors leave it?

Question

You can't answer that! Seriously, I hear you people go on and on about how wonderful Sweden and France and England and Germany and Italy are, but if they are so wonderful, don't you think your ancestors would have stayed in those countries? No. They wanted capitalism and freedom instead of socialism and nanny states, so they left. Why not show some gratitude and prefer America over Europe?

Answer 1

Were you home schooled ... or did you just miss a lot of schooling?

France, England, Germany and Italy are not socialist countries and Sweden is a constitutional monarchy which has a DEMOCRATIC socialist government AND all of them operate under a capitalist system very similar to the way we do here and they have just as many freedoms if not more.

It seems that you are the one who has some sort of inferiority complex about being American ... !

Answer 2

I can answer that, because back in the 1880s there was practically no jobs in Italy, to my Great Grandparent moved to the US because there was jobs available. It has nothing to do with Socialism or Capitalism, it had to do with where jobs were. You are an idiot, and have no idea what you are talking about. Oh and PS, the US isn't Capitalism, we are Corporatism now. Socialism is way better tham Corporatism.

Answer 3

We moved from England during my childhood because my dad's company was starting a North American branch and asked him to lead it. Though they enjoy it over here for the most part they miss the National Health Service where you pay a little more in tax and don't have to deal with insurance company bureaucracy and excessive paperwork and rationing of my mother's migraine medicine and they plan on moving back to that socialist nanny state to retire.



Please don't pretend you know my parents better than I do. <3

Answer 4

It wasn't socialist, it was an aristocracy (remember the kings and queens?). Unfortunately, modern Americans have forgotten those lessons and we are now back where we started. We are now subjects of Wall Street. That's why the revolution to free ourselves from the chains of plutocrats is beginning.

Answer 5

My mother and grandparents fled the Eastern Bloc, communism and all the problems that come with it in order to come to America. They have nothing but love for the United States.

Answer 6

No, my anscestors were actually quite happy paysannes back around Marseille in 1536. Then the king decided to start a colony in Arcadia and they were selected in the second draft, married on the dock (boys on the right, girls on the left) and shipped off to be farmers or die.



Then came the 7 years war, which the French lost. The English king, in a fit of pique called Le Grande Derangement had colonial forces lieutenant George Washington and his band of Merry Men burnout villages and farms around Haloween yelling trick or treat.



We were loaded in ships and hauled to your colonies to die of starvation. But some of us escaped to Spanish La and begged the governor to let us in. We were happy to be Spanish colonists in Louisiana and were less than thrilles when Your United States bought us in 1803. And we fought against you in the civil war which we unfortunately lost.



So here we are being uprooted twice by the European kings in their little wars of pride and competition. then sold like slaves to the US. So KMA

Answer 7

Fine. The US is the finest nation that ever could exist and has no problems at all. Anyone saying otherwise deserves death because that's how freedom works.



Happy?

Answer 8

Two little things called world war one and world war two silly them why would they leave for a better life.

Answer 9

"Liberals: if the socialist Europe you love is so great, why did your ancestors leave it?"



Trick question. There were no chimps in Europe.