How lovely the world must look like to the stubbornly naive...

Can't believe I'm turning into the statist here, considering that in he outside world I tend to take the opposite role, but so much simplification and ideologically motivated misrepresentations of reality have that effect.

Hey, I know what I'll do: I'll just warm up my earlier point: how come those pretty "socialist" states like Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands outperform (on pretty much every metric) more economically permissive countries like the US?