Wealth inequality is high-ish in norway, with a lot of the country being owned by less than 10% of the population. It’s also a petro-state, making a real green transition for the whole world harder.

It has a low population, making it easy to have these services with the amount of wealth the country produce by being a petro-state.

It relies on immigration for it’s population replacement which will likely cause the kind of crisis we see in other so called developed countries.

I think Norway is in a petro-dollat fuelled bubble, and when it will burst, which is innevitable, will see a decline in its standard of living like in other so called developed countries as it did not invest in itself fully.

I hope i’m wrong but most petro-state happens to follow fhe same pattern actually.

For sure, the republicans are worst.

But the dems are still not good.

Americans have no representation at all.

I really wonder how it would work in a country that big in empty spaces and populations with so much authoritarian actors.

Each county has a well armed police force. Nearly each state has an armed force millitia. The country has a national guard. It also has several armed agencies. It has the three biggest armies on earth if you separate each corp and only count active soldiers. It has so much millitary equipment the overflow gets sold to polices.

Those armed millitia are all in different counties, are smaller than the local police forces, with less weapon and next to no organizational know how… They would never be able to have any other impact than get outgunned in a remote place by cops or the national guard…

Unless they all start to cause chaos at the same time, which would maybe lead to a semi destabilization of some part of the USA, I don’t see these people with guns achieve anything.

Also most people who wants guns are scared/anxious persons and will talk loud about using them but won’t act when it’s time, because their real motivation is hiding a percived weaknesses with a weapon.

That’s why in all the years of abuse by the insurance system in America, there was only one Luidgi.