All you suckers who voted for me , you are really the dumbest people of the world ! <| sep |> When news or print articles typically written from the left of center viewpoint want to advocate a change in US domestic policy , usually they ' ll find a country with a similar policy that is regarded as doing better than the US . The classic examples healthcare , governmentenforced paid time off , school testing , early childhood education , immigration policy , etc . Typical choices are Canada , Finland , Sweden , Norway but it could be other European or even Asian countries . Canada is usually the first choice because it ' s considered nearly the same as the US in order to anticipate any claims that adopting a similar program here wouldn ' t work . We rarely hear about dysfunctional European programs or the things the US government does that others don ' t . The reasons might be that it ' s not useful why would you want to learn about something that doesn ' t work that you aren ' t doing versus something that does work that you aren ' t doing ? and also political journalists usually advocate for increase government funding and regulation and so why would you make those things look bad by showing problems with EuropeanCanadian governments ? .