• Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    country is the equivalent of 50 spains

    I get the sentiment but the disparity isn’t that big. Population wise the US is ~7 times bigger. Spain also has 17 provinces and 2 of them: Catalonia and basque country, have pretty significant separatist movements, and they had a civil war more recently then the US, so it isn’t exactly that much more unified then the US. They also have a similarly sized congress, so wrangling votes is just as hard.

    I think it’s more because of their political culture and constitution rather then their size.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      No no no you dont understand. Americans cant be expected to improve their own situation, you have to listen to why nothing that works anywhere would work there instead.