>Ireland only recently legalized abortion, which has been legal in the United States since 1972. The legal status of abortion in the United States is in some wa

>Ireland only recently legalized abortion, which has been legal in the United States since 1972. The legal status of abortion in the United States is in some ways far more liberal than in many European countries, and in other ways less. Abortion was supported by the majority of the Irish for a while. That it became legal recently is only mildly correlated with the social acceptability of the view itself, and prior to legalization many women would simply fly to England or wherever to do what they had to do. >American courts have routinely protected levels of civil liberties that are beyond those recognized anywhere in the EU. >Unlike some EU countries, the United States neither has a state-established religion, nor regulates or prohibits the public exercise of religion. >The United States has stricter corporate regulations and higher corporate taxes than many EU countries. The right-wing Heritage Foundation's "Index of Economic Freedom" ranks the United States 18th, below Switzerland, Ireland, Estonia, the UK, Iceland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Sweden, and the Netherlands. According to actual American conservatives, countries following the famed "Nordic Model" are in fact, even more capitalist than the United States! I'm not sure how that relates to my point. I never said Europe is consistently more left-leaning than America on every political issue, which would be a very silly point indeed that'd require twisting the definition of 'left-leaning' to the point of meaninglessness. I'm saying that many views considered left-leaning or liberal in America are the norm in Europe, and I'm raising the question of whether that makes Europe and its ~500M inhabitants a monoculture equivalent to that of tech companies.