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AsGryffynn on 24 June 2016
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sc94597 said:
Soundwave said:

Canada? lol, Americans think Canada is 1972 Soviet Russia. Free healthcare? Pension plans? Gun control? OMG it's gubbermint tyranny! Australia is much the same as Canada. 

Those countries are certainly not right of center of the US. 

Americans are misinformed on many things. Also I don't know what you think medicaid/medicare and social security are, but they they are "free healthcare" and "public pension plans." Australia at least has a privatized system at the core of its pension system.

http://www.heritage.org/index/

Australia ranks 5th, Canada ranks 6th, the U.S ranks 11th.

Capitalism and right-wing aren't intrinsically linked (only in the minds of socialists is this true.) For example, Bastiat - a famous proponent of capitalism - sat on the left of the French assembly. The right-left paradigm has more to do with traditionalism/institutional hierarchy vs. equality/radicalism.

Left right is for approach to things, not ideology. You can have a leftist capitalist (an ordoliberalist) or a right wing socialist (a Nazi)...