Timotheus wrote:My parents didn't have much when they first moved to Belgium as well, and the first ten years of my life I didn't live in wealth. Same goes for Bernie Sanders by the way. I'm not saying there's no opportunity in the US (or in the Western world in general). I'm also not saying all white, rich people are all bad and greedy. I just think that opportunity could and should be a lot bigger. Not only in the US, but also in Europe. Having a work ethic is great, but try telling that to people who are working their asses off for a minimum wage. A huge majority of people who are born poor, stay poor. For some people it's just a lot harder to make it. Intelligence, education, environment and sadly also color play a huge part in that. Saying that social democrats want stuff handed to them on a silver spoon is just not true. They just want equal opportunity.
I don't see why I need to live in the US to have an opinion about who's gonna be the biggest leader of the world for the following 4 years. There's only so much you guys experience firsthand anyway. What I was saying in my first post wasn't an attack, just that I can put the word "socialist" in perspective, coming from a country that is a lot more left than you. FDR was called a socialist and a communist by the Republicans as well and that turned out pretty good.
My grandpa lived out of a tent for a few years during the Great Depression. Born poor but didn't stay poor because he worked his tail off. I realize that's not possible in every situation, I get it. But I guess I grew up in a family that didn't make excuses for everything.
Kev made a good point about community college. Some people snub their noses at it, but I spent my first two years there and actually got paid a little kickback in grants to go. It's a really affordable option to jumpstart a good career opportunity. But no, keep telling me why your $100,000 university degree in psychology should've been paid for with tax payer dollars because you had no foresight.
