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Originally Posted by MattyC
Maybe when looking at ethnicity demographics and language.
Other than that, we are ideologically very different. A group like the NDP would have very little support in the US. We are, from 30,000 ft (or 10,000 m), a very socialist nation. The US as whole doesn't see the difference between socialism and communism and any mention of anything leaning that way gets you labelled a soviet.
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I think socialism is very much the wrong term. Red Torys still exist here. We don't yet seem to live in the post-political, post-family, and post- religious dreams that European socialists live in. Maybe we are close.