Norway: population of 5M people. Incredible oil wealth. Massachusetts is larger in population that Norway. It's not a reasonable comparison. Sweden: population

Norway: population of 5M people. Incredible oil wealth. Massachusetts is larger in population that Norway. It's not a reasonable comparison. Sweden: population of 10M people. Roughly the population of Michigan, for example. Just elected a rightward moving parliament on a law and order and immigration-restriction agenda. Denmark: population of 5M people - again - compared to Massachusetts (which is larger by population), not a particularly exceptional place. I admire all of these EU countries but you just can't compare them to the size, geographic distribution, and non-uniformity of the entire US. Why is it no one ever compares Hungary, Latvia, Cyprus .. or other less prosperous EU nations to the US? And never compares highly successful states to the EU as a whole?