The claim is "American politicians are too conservative to be elected in Europe."
Therefore, yeah, involving eastern europe is totally justified.
Eastern Europe, I would say seems worse then the Southern States by a decent margin. You can blame that on a lack of a centralzied government, but the fact remains the same.
There are plenty of holes in western europeons freedoms and liberal ideas that would also suggest that they aren't really any liberal then liberal US states, outside a few scandanavian countries.
For example, the Tories in power in England, are generally seen to be like Ronald Reagan. Who at this point is too conservative to be elected in the US in many states. The German and English Austerity plans would be outright rejected in states like NY, and California.
Or another, the Italian Prime minister would of been forced to resign for his rampant sexism, in any state in the US. Even Mississippi.
"France's tradtiion of secularism" sounds a lot like "conservative view to not allow freedom of religion."
Also, complaining that eastern europe is backwords socially because of decades of communism seems to support my point rather then oppose it.
