> Every "heartwarming" human interest story in the United States is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.
src: https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1309325764739858432
Orphans lower home values, so city governments buy Orphan Crushing Machines to keep the neighborhood “nice.”
I think that support massively goes down when the likes of fox news runs FUD headline about how people in the UK are dying due to long waiting times, coming to the conclusion that single payer systems are BAD, private-only healthcare is GOOD.
People can easily be manipulated by mass UFD to vote against their own best interests.
Those three regions alone make up the majority of the "rest of the world", and I'm pretty sure an unskilled laborer from any of them would be delighted to come to the United States and work at Burger King.
Even relatively desirable countries (e.g., Canada) have a gross imbalance, on a per capita basis, between people emigrating to the United States and and people emigrating from the United States to their country. The imbalance would be much worse if the United States didn't have restrictions on immigration.
People vote with their feet, mang.
The rest of the world was raised on the Hollywood portrayal of a rich country of bounty where the only people suffering were either drug addicts or in some other country