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I mean, you said it in the first few sentences.

The ultimate state of being in the US is one of higher freedom.

What happens at the bottom end is neither here nor there.

I prefer the European model as well - but let's be clear about this - most socialist countries don't really care about this either from a moral perspective, it's more of a law and order thing and a different way of running a society internally.

The UK is leaving the EU in large part because a lot of people think immigration from other reasonably-developed countries is too high. The actually poor parts of the world are like a massive blind spot that we wave away into the category of 'asylum seekers' as if they're subhuman.

Everywhere and everyone has a blind spot somewhere.




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