Robin Hood wrote: ↑December 19th, 2017, 11:25 am The UK is easily the least socialist of any European nation. We have a right-wing conservative government and the only time in recent decades when we had a Labour government was under Tony Blair, who was more conservative in many ways than Margaret Thatcher!
When you claim that the UK is a socialist state you simply expose your ignorance (for which Americans are world renowned) for all to see.
As for your freedoms, what other nation on earth requires soon to be married couples to have a blood test? Or makes it an offence, an offence take note, to cross the road wherever you jolly well want to!
So in the interests of fairness I would like you to name any freedom a US citizen has which a UK citizen does not. I'm not saying there aren't any (there may well be) but name some if you can.
Robin Hood
I already did. One that's important to me is the freedom to buy, own and carry a gun.
I can walk into a store, buy a gun with no background check, pay the money, and walk out with the gun. And I could buy any type of long gun or hand gun that is manufactured. All I have to have is the money.
And I can put it in my pocket and carry it around just about anywhere. Or I can strap it on my hip and openly carry it around, fully loaded. All completely legal. And why not? I'm a free citizen of a free country.
And the other 100 or 1000 differences with your country are just as, or more dramatic.
Now I agree you are no where near as bad as some other parts of Europe, and their socialist mentality, nor anywhere near the horrid conditions of soviet era Russia.
But your country and ours are clearly both headed there, and that is what we have been admonished to not allow to happen. What we have been admonished to fight against.
In any society there will be rules of general order. You will cross the street at an appointed place. You will drive your car between the lines. That's not a lack of freedom. It's just basic social order.
True in soviet era Russia, since road lane lines cost money, they frequently weren't there for those rare folks able to afford a car, and able to find one to buy. And that was, and still is a very dangerous situation. That and vodka (not much to do in soviet Russia but drink) gave Russia some of the most dangerous roads in the world.
But that's not freedom. It was just a flaw of their basic social order.
Don't confuse anarchy with freedom. They are two different things.
I can tell you, I'd rather cross the road at the appointed and approved place and carry a gun, than not be able to own one without all kinds of nonsense permits (unless I'm a black market criminal) and cross where the cars just run me over.
dc