That's more an artifact of America's history, IMO, as it was brought in to side-step Dredd Scott. America didn't have it until the southern states refused to allow citizenship for African Americans even after the emancipation proclamation. I don't believe in birthright citizenship because I don't think it makes sense, but I respect why Americans support it. It's just not a big problem one way or the other. Especially since y'all extract tax revenue from American citizens no matter where on earth they live. You should encourage everyone to have babies in America and fly back where they came from to help offset the deficit ;)
> Opposition to school vouchers, which are part of the Swedish education system.
It's not part of the vast majority of the world's school systems. That the Swedes made it work doesn't make it left vs. right.
> Support for a single-payer “Medicare for All” system along with the prohibition of private health insurance.
A few candidates are, but nobody who's become nominee for the Democrats has supported socialized medicine of any flavor, whether that's two-tier or single-payer.
> US corporate tax rates are extraordinarily high by the standards of other developed countries; Democrats consistently oppose lowering them.
I'm not sure that's a left v. right thing but more a function of the trillion dollar deficit.
> Many European countries have reformed their old age pensions to avoid long term deficit spending. Democrats oppose this type of reform to Social Security.
I don't know enough to weigh in on this.
Obama originally proposed a public option for Obamacare, but withdrew that part of the plan to get the rest of the reform passed. Bill Clinton had a universal health care plan in 1993. Even Harry Truman campaigned for national health insurance in 1948.
Of the current candidates, Biden supports a public option while Warren and Sanders support a single-payer system.
> I'm not sure that's a left v. right thing but more a function of the trillion dollar deficit.
The net effect of high corporate taxes is that corporations don't pay them anyway. The corporate taxes that actually do get paid tend to be in countries like Ireland with low corporate taxes. If Democrats were as reasonable and centrist as their European counterparts, they would advocate for a revenue-neutral lowering of corporate tax offset by increases in individual taxes.
* Birthright citizenship based on being physically born within the country—not the case in any European country
* Opposition to school vouchers, which are part of the Swedish education system
* Support for a single-payer “Medicare for All” system along with the prohibition of private health insurance. Only Canada and Taiwan have this particular type of system, with nearly every other country allowing some sort of private insurance to supplement public systems.
* US corporate tax rates are extraordinarily high by the standards of other developed countries; Democrats consistently oppose lowering them.
* Many European countries have reformed their old age pensions to avoid long term deficit spending. Democrats oppose this type of reform to Social Security.