Reading through these comments has been interesting, some strong points being made, some evasions, but at the end of the day very insightful stuff. I will just say that I believe in true equality, everyone get treated the same way regardless to race, gender, or sexuality. I wish I could say either side of this argument really seemed to want that, but to be honest it looks like the same old back and forth finger pointing that never gets anything done.
That being said I am mortified that people would be so disgusting as to harass and threaten people to this or to any extent, it is some cave man shit that needs to stop, the internet is an amazing thing, it is too bad it is so full of reprehensible people. I am sorry these things have happened to you.
Because one country maintaining 400 million people is a lot different than 28 countries containing around the same number. There are plenty of socialist practices in the US that are supported by most citizens open handed, but not all practices of socialism are practical in a single country as large as we are with as many costs that we have. However like all groups of people in the world the vocal minority is often paid the most attention. The US is a partisan war zone stuck in between two groups of people who think they are very different but vote for people who are the same. Everyone in between that believes these two major parties are destructive are ignored and otherwise shamed for not following along.
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