Is it really a better quality of life when the government dictates to you everything.
They don't. You are deluded. More liberal government makes you better off economically.
What percentage of Americans emigrate to the socialist countries vs what percentage immigrate from the socialist countries?
That is the better barometer?
Let's clear that up a bit.
Sweden is a more 'socialist' country, as is Europe generally. Bigger safety net, etc.
Funny, they don't seem to have a huge migrate to the US rate.
Other countries are worse off not because they might have a left-wing government but for other reasons - a long history of colonization, for example.
So if you take a poor country that's horrible run by a right-wing dictator, and it's then better off because they get rid of the dictator and have a left-wing government, it might be a lot better off - but still a lot poorer than first-world countries like the US or Europe, with plenty of people who would like to migrate under either system.
Now if we're not talking a 'socialist government', but we're talking, say, the old Soviet bloc, that was a poorer, authoritarian regime that was *communist* - and many would like to leave it. They had to build the wall in Germany to keep their people in, a big embarrassment about how things were there. That's not about a 'socialist government' any more than people wanting to leave Nazi Germany were about 'capitalist government'.
The issues facing the US aren't about what you think they are - you would oppose the changed FDR made that helped the middle class do better also.
Opposing monopoly, opposing excessive concentration of wealth with robber barons and mass poverty, supporting a safety net - these are against the far right, they are more 'socialist' and they are good for the American people, not some Soviet system that the left opposes as much as if not more than the right.
'Hey, let's cut taxes on the top 1% and shift them onto everyone else.' 'Hey, lets cut taxes on the top 1% again.' 'Hey, let's cut taxes on the top 1% again'.
By doing so, let's run up the public debt, let's cut the government that's for the benefit of the citizens, nice idea. That's a right-wing approach bad for the people.
The fact the US is the biggest economy in the world and a good enough standard of living helps give it a low rate of people leaving whatever government it has, left or right. In the Great Depression, I don't recall there being a very high rate of Americans leaving for other countries. So that's not a measure - and your point is undone by the more socialist European countries not having many people who leave either.
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