Which country do you envy for their political leaders or political landscape?

[noname223]

I think many here are critical about the political leaders in their own country. Though I ask myself which country do you think has a competent leader.

I often hear the life quality in Scandinavia was so high. However many here in this forum who live there say it is way overrated. I have read some negative things that happened in Sweden. In the news they said there were fake news spreaded that Sweden would treat their refugees badly. And this led to the fact the Sweden with their otherwise generous welcoming culture to become more sceptical towards migration.
Not sure how much truth this story contains.

I think I would not like to live in most powerful countries at the moment. China way no. The covid politics and the manchester capitalism is out of control. Russia hell no. The USA they treat poor hard-working people too badly. India hell no you are one of more than a biliion and most people don't have good future prospects.

I would probably choose the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland or an Scandinavian country. The first ones inter alia due to their assisted suicide laws and high living quality. Their leaders seem to be competent and their countries are prospering. Germany is currently going down due to the lack of gas. We envy the economical growth of the Netherlands.

 

[Susannah]

I think many here are critical about the political leaders in their own country. Though I ask myself which country do you think has a competent leader.

I often hear the life quality in Scandinavia was so high. However many here in this forum who live there say it is way overrated. I have read some negative things that happened in Sweden. In the news they said there were fake news spreaded that Sweden would treat their refugees badly. And this led to the fact the Sweden with their otherwise generous welcoming culture to become more sceptical towards migration.
Not sure how much truth this story contains.

I think I would not like to live in most powerful countries at the moment. China way no. The covid politics and the manchester capitalism is out of control. Russia hell no. The USA they treat poor hard-working people too badly. India hell no you are one of more than a biliion and most people don't have good future prospects.

I would probably choose the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland or an Scandinavian country. The first ones inter alia due to their assisted suicide laws and high living quality. Their leaders seem to be competent and their countries are prospering. Germany is currently going down due to the lack of gas. We envy the economical growth of the Netherlands.

I can tell about Norway. We usually score high on "happiness barometers" and economic growth. As well as high trust in the governing authorities.

Norway is a constitutional hereditary monarchy. The king has little or no real power. Norway is a good socialist democracy. Compulsory membership in a national health insurance system guarantees all Norwegians free medical care in hospital, compensation for doctor's fees and free medicine, as well as compensation for lost wages. We therefore have relatively high and many taxes in Norway.

The political landscape in Norway consists of approximately 9 parties. Some red (socialist), some blue (conservative) and some green (environmental parties). We also have the parties that are in the middle. They consist of red-green and blue-green. That makes it more difficult to get a majority government. The people vote for the party they most agree with.

Workers in Norway are well protected through strong trade unions. "Everyone must be heard" in this small country. We are not part of the EU, but we are in the EEA. Norwegians have traditionally been a country of fishermen and farmers. Then we found oil. Norway became a rich country.

Norway is a modern country with a great need for labour. Immigration to Norway has increased considerably in recent years. As of today, immigrants in Norway make up over 17% of the population. Norwegians are afraid of what we call "Swedish conditions". More violence, ghettos, racism and murder.

I would choose Switzerland.

 

[earshurt]

I've always admired Canada for doing ever so slightly better than my country under very similar circumstances. The fact that the ACA is what passes for "progressive healthcare legislation" in the U.S. would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.

Canada has more options in terms of viable major parties. Their Conservatives are forced to act less crazy than our Republicans, because their electoral landscape forces them to pander to people outside their base. Canada is an imperfect country - boarding school deaths, anyone? - but my point is that it's less bad than the U.S. overall.

 

[Maudlin]

North Sentinel Island.

Tiny little place that's so tough not only have they kept the world at bay the entire time they've been known, but they forced India to allow them to become a protectorate.

The only thing anyone knows about their political structure is it's very effective, and few who go to study it (or anything else about their society) return. Must be perfect, there.

I'd bet it's the closest thing to Utopia mankind has ever achieved. I'm sure the Sentinelese score at the top of any social metric you'd care to grade them on, and I'd like to encourage any sociologist worth their salt to go visit and prove me wrong.

 

[zeenatax]

Finland, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand. Good governance, egalitarianism and relatively clean honest leaders. People are looked after well.

 

[Nolan96]

Hungary. Maybe Italy too. Slovakia and Estonia seem like they have a fair amount of decent people. Germans are a broken people. There are some sensible people in France (Le Pen, Zemmour, etc.) but overall it seems shit there. Russians and Ukrainians are obviously fucked. The UK and Canada are fucked. The US at least has DeSantis.

 

[lionetta12]

I think many here are critical about the political leaders in their own country. Though I ask myself which country do you think has a competent leader.

I often hear the life quality in Scandinavia was so high. However many here in this forum who live there say it is way overrated. I have read some negative things that happened in Sweden. In the news they said there were fake news spreaded that Sweden would treat their refugees badly. And this led to the fact the Sweden with their otherwise generous welcoming culture to become more sceptical towards migration.
Not sure how much truth this story contains.

I think I would not like to live in most powerful countries at the moment. China way no. The covid politics and the manchester capitalism is out of control. Russia hell no. The USA they treat poor hard-working people too badly. India hell no you are one of more than a biliion and most people don't have good future prospects.

I would probably choose the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland or an Scandinavian country. The first ones inter alia due to their assisted suicide laws and high living quality. Their leaders seem to be competent and their countries are prospering. Germany is currently going down due to the lack of gas. We envy the economical growth of the Netherlands.

None, all politicans suck and lie.

 

[Zelonis]

I would say none. All politicians are liars. The closest ones though, are Scandinavian ones.

 

[qiuyu]

Bruh. I am Chinese. I basically envy most countries