The leftists that wanted actual communism , the goofy ones with balls , died out in the 70 s . Any leftist just wants the USA to be like Denmark <| sep |> SSS for sure , Wallace is too inconsistent <| sep |> I find it weird that you can get arrestedcautioned for drinking or being in possession of alcohol while underage there . I guess it ' s just because you can be over 18 and still underage for drinking , but most other places , it ' s not illegal to be the underage person , it ' s only illegal for other people to give underage people alcohol . In Germany it ' s literally written into law as Young people ' s protection . It ' s kind of assumed that the young people themselves don ' t really have the maturity to say No thanks , I ' ll wait until I ' m older ! which is eminently sensible . I mean you might conceivably get an ASBO in Britain for consistently being 15 and drunk on the streets but it would mostly be a child protection issue , you ' d have social workers on your case mainly unsuccessfully at that age before having actual law enforcement issues .