Yeah. The truth is literally the exact opposite of what they said - early puritan settlers left for America specifically because they wanted to be controlling and overbearing and the European states they set off from were less and less welcoming to this kind of thing.

Perhaps. I contend that the main waves of immigration in the 18-20th centuries consisted of opportunists well above average.

There is more to it than the post-war social-democratic systems in Western Europe. Going back centuries there was never a way to up and move to an uncontrolled space and start anew like on the American continent. The entire European continent was under tight control by whatever authority there was whether church or feudal, with restrictions on movement, residence, and labor.

But Americans aren't educated outside of stem

> And it shows

what's the homeless rate in Sweden ? Netherlands? France? I'll leave out Germany since thats a little unfair.