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Germanics in Europe all support welfare societies and allowing the State to "do stuff" such as universal healthcare, provide public housing, etc. by and large your average German or Nordic will not be opposed to the idea that the government may own or control certain industries and that government regulations will be used to steer industry and the market in a desired direction
>USA: total phobia and rabidly negative reaction to the government, Ronald Reagan literally elected with a landslide victory using rhetoric that "government is bad". No universal healthcare and widespread opposition to it. Right Wing American politicians often even oppose providing food for school children
Germanics are "quiet" people and reserved in public. They don't like bombastic talking, they don't talk to strangers often, they despise being loud in public.
>USA: loud as fuck, unashamedly proud, strangers will start a conversation with you in public
Germanic governments are all Parliamentary and hostile to 'Big Man' personalities who want to shake up politics. Governance is built on compromises that never fully satisfy everyone but which keep things rolling along. Coalitions are the norm.
>USA: Presidential system which basically breeds cults of personalities and larger than life characters. All Or Nothing approach to politics, Congress gets deadlocked because of dual party system and both sides literally seeing each other as existential threats
Germanic societies today are all secularized, with Germany being the least due to the Catholic holdouts in Bavaria and whatnot, but by and large still de facto atheistic societies today due to a variety of reasons
>USA: no explanation needed
The USA is literally more similar to Brazil, in terms of societal behavior, than to any Germanic country in Europe. American political ideas which are mainstream in the US are treated as literal abominations and heretical madness in a country like Iceland or Denmark.
