| leatherhat said: You're not really going to find a more conservative first world country then America. |
In some ways yes, in other ways not so much ...
In the United States you have one of the biggest, most corrupt and over-reaching governments; that spends as much on social programs and has as high of taxes as any "Socialist" nation; and has more bureaucracy and red-tape as the most bureaucratic nations around the world. The interests of large corporations, unions and the ultra wealthy are protected while the high-income "Rich" (often small business owner) are bled dry.
While the United States may remain a very socially conservative nation, the fact that it is one of the least fiscally conservative nations and has completely abandoned the concept of small efficient government that is at the center of most conservative ideology, it is difficult to argue that it is much of a conservative nation at all.
