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Portugal did this in the 90's and they where poorer than the US for sure. It's a cultural/religious problem if you ask me.
by tough 4y ago
Portugal did this in the 90's and they where poorer than the US for sure.
It's a cultural/religious problem if you ask me.
- madaxe_again 4y agoPortugal is pretty devoutly Catholic. It’s a cultural problem.
- wil421 4y agoThat means nothing as I assume the GP was alluding to Puritan values instead of Catholic ones.
- AlgorithmicTime 4y agoEvangelicals are not Puritans, nor is there a theological ancestry from modern evangelical christianity to Puritanism.
- TorontoTheGood 4y agoVladimir wants to paint a specific picture, dig?
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- madaxe_again 4y agoThat’s precisely what I meant. Both have religion in spades - but only one has a toxic culture around it. It probably helps that Portugal was a neighbour to religious lunatics for much of its existence, and even had a few deeply unpopular monarchs who invited the inquisition in. It’s still there in the cultural memory - they take god seriously, but the idea of religious persecution and the involvement of church in state is pretty much anathema to the average Portuguese.
- mandmandam 4y ago[dead]
- themitigating 4y agoI think he meant evangelicals who push "personal responsibility" and other similar values.
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- nicoburns 4y agoI suspect their welfare state is/was still better than the US's though.
- throwayyy479087 4y agoHonestly, I agree. I think that the American experiment is failing. The school shootings, the insane death toll from reckless driving, the drugs - people are desperate and disconnected. Religion and civic groups are basically gone, with no replacement. We're in these weird atomized suburban bubbles. Seems bad.