> I support United States policies that move in the direction of east Asian rather than western European patterns of government spending and social welfare, put

> I support United States policies that move in the direction of east Asian rather than western European patterns of government spending and social welfare, putting more of the investment in future generations back in the hands of families and less in the hands of bureaucrats. Just curious what you mean by this. East Asian and West European nations do have very different models of political economy compared to each other and the US, but both of them involve a much greater degree of state direction than even very liberal Americans would tolerate. Also not sure how your ideas on educational policy fit there. Every East Asian nation I know of regulates education with extreme top-down strictness from the national level, even where they do allow/subsidize non-state schools.