We’re small, and that means a lot of the problems facing America just pass us by.

I guess history and a sense of being part of an established culture.

Do also want to point out though that Americans talk their country down on here. It’s a place of extremes but that diversity in theory means anyone could find their niche. They also have pretty much every biome you might want to live in from desert, to parks to icy tundra - I can see why you might not need a passport.

• Actually diverse politics (though still dominated by moneyed right wing)
• Amazon is not the nº 1 online retailer and there exists… some competition between the major ones
• Significantly less infighting between federal govt and states - phones were recently banned from every school as federal law, no “let states decide” bullshit
• We don’t have to pay to make searches in justice databases
• We have govt-funded hospitals and healthcare (doesn’t always work and there’s constant right-wing ill-will to sell it all off)
• 🏴‍☠️ So long as you don’t pirate stuff for profit, nobody will go after you 🏴‍☠️

A president cant win without getting majority of votes. If there is no one with over 50% of the votes, a second round happens between the top 2

It doesn’t have a traitor as a president

This seems like a pretty obvious one: We have democracy.

Public healthcare
Super annuation
Preferential & compulsory voting
No tipping culture
Consumer protection laws
Gun control laws
Weather service isnt privitised
Wide variety of multicultural foods
Farming sector isnt controlled by a few companies (ie chickens)/subsidy schemes (looking at you corn)
Organised religion has less participation and dropping steadily
Adoption of rooftop solar systems

Also significantly less instances of tech billionares, team factional politics, media oligarchs & donald trumps.

There are a lot of areas we could do better and are ashamed of though.

I come from a third world country that is worse than the US in a lot of ways, but I don’t have to worry about getting shot by a rando with a gun.

India - multi-party democracy. US is too big and too diverse of a place to have effectively have two parties for every region and every cohort of the country. It should try to copy some aspects of India’s multi-party culture. Some states in India have parties that don’t exist in any other state. And some parties exist across many states. Basically a mix of current US system and the European system.

Just off the top of my head:

State-sponsored higher education that is later paid back through taxes. Free healthcare, also paid for by taxes, and affordable medicine. Decent mass transit, although railways are a disgrace. Labour laws. Paid sick leave and mandatory minimum vacation days. Paid maternity leave, and tax breaks for new mothers.

PM is a Russian asset, but still better than Trump.

If you get cancer, you can have access to chemotherapy for free. And that’s basically it

Healthcare, climate, food, democracy, measurement system, no death penalty, houses in concrete

Parliamentary democracy with proportional representation, affordable healthcare, affordable education, great roads and infrastructure with lots of cycling lanes, shops near homes, better labour laws, more vacation days, maternity leave, social safety net, less gun violence, police trained in de-escalation, affordable phone and internet plans, more affordable healthy food options, more egalitarian culture, none of those pesky hills or mountains, surrounded by countries that make good beer.

We don’t have a 2 party political system and have functional public transport.

We already went through the phase you just began.