America is socially conservative. America does not embrace socialism: universal health care does not exist in the US and welfare pensions are limited in the US, inadequate public transport. America is a pure capitalist market economy and it has a corporate dictatorship with two factions.
Europe is regarded as socially liberal and progressive. Europe embraces socialism: universal health care, universal education, public housing, good public transport systems. Europe is a combination of social democracy and conservative free market and liberal democracy.
In both America and Europe governments are not at all fiscally conservative with their out of control public spending and growing deficits and growing unemployment rates. American governments are corrupt and bail out failing corporations too big too fail. Paranoid America government spends too much on defence to protect itself from possible threats but it is the biggest threat to every other nation.
