Why America Sucks

Okay, that's not directed at any individual American of even groups of American citizens. Also it's not a qualification of the country, its geography or its beautiful and diverse landscapes. Instead it's a critique of its systems of politics, its economy and its economical elite.

And it's part of the title of the video I share with you today, dear reader. It's titled "An American Reacts to Why America Sucks at Everything - THIS ONE HURT," and after watching it, one question came to mind: "How on earth do you put up with it?" I know, there's nothing new in the video this American reacts to, certainly not if you're a regular visitor to my blog; it's about the shitty healthcare system mostly, and the growing wealth-gap, the broken system of taxation and so on. But putting it all together, and watching this American man be heartbroken about the state of the country he clearly loves so much... It hit something inside me.

What made it even more disheartening for me is that the word "capitalism" isn't uttered even once. I'm sure the poor fellow believes that the solution to all the problems and failures presented can be found in slight adjustments in the capitalist political economy, make it more like the European social democracies the American system is constantly compared with. Also in this video the "Scandinavian model" is held up as the shining example of how capitalism could and should be made to work for everyone. Well, I have some bad news if you believe that; this model is being eroded as we speak, it's slowly being dismantled. The famous British healthcare system is being deconstructed bit by bit, and in my country we've since long gone the way of Obamacare when we used to have socialized healthcare in the past.

Another misconception I want to address briefly is that many people think that Big Pharma is run by governments here in Europe and in Canada or Australia; that's not true. Everywhere in the world Big Pharma is private and "for profit," there are no exceptions. The only difference is that in countries that don't let their citizens die or go bankrupt from healthcare-bills, the government is the sole buyer of medicine and healthcare, which yields a lot of bargaining power. That's called single-payer healthcare:

Single-payer healthcare is a type of universal healthcare in which the costs of essential healthcare for all residents are covered by a single public system (hence "single-payer").
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Even with the reduced prices paid for healthcare and medicines in these countries, big pharmaceutical companies still make profits high enough to satisfy their shareholders; this should put the American prices in an even grimmer perspective. It's just amazing. Neither of the two political parties care about their citizens. They just don't care about anything but their own bottom-line and their own position of power. America has a right-wing party and a far-right party, and I don't get how anyone can put up with this. The American in the video will go back to Germany, where I believe he lives now, but he shot the video in America; I invite you all, American or not, to watch it because, as I said earlier, this American system is where we all seem to be headed eventually...

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