[peteretep]

That's a lot of points, so I'm going to simply hone in on one point which I feel is sort of indicative here:

> If forming a government, and the results of certain variables are unclear, why not try to wholeheartedly clone the most successful example?

I genuinely, honestly believe that of the countries I've highlighted, the people in the US get the rawest deal. It ranks lowest in life expectancy, locks up three times as many people as the next highest on that list, people get the least paid time off, obesity is by far the worst, people still go medically bankrupt(!!!), people are killed by law enforcement at three times the rate of the next highest (Canada), inequality (via Gini coefficient), homicide rate is 4x the nearest neighbor (UK). In short, I think it's hard to build an argument off "copy what the United States did because they're the best".