Publisher's Synopsis
PLANET AMERICA out of orbit offers a comparison between the United States and Europe, especially the Nordic countries of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Finland. These wealthy capitalistic nations with their socialist programs have the highest standards of living in the world and equality among its citizens is considered one of the most important objectives in their societies. The new Progressives in American politics have begun to embrace these Nordic values to combat policies favoring the wealthy and big business. They are striving to promote ideas and policies that should enhance the chances of U.S. citizens enjoying what people in Europe, especially the Nordic countries enjoy: health care for all, free college education, and far more financial equality, instead of poverty and slums. With the emergence of Donald Trump as president, the United States is falling into a position similar to many third world countries. America already had the impoverishment, the ghettos, and the crime. All it needs to add is the disappearance of the middle class slipping into destitution and the rich getting richer. Government protocol like the Trump trillion-dollar tax cut may be the most obvious beginning of that spiral. The coronavirus made the United States an international pariah by being the only Industrial Nation to succumb to its carnage and not have the means to conquer it. The pandemic in American was so severe that its citizens were forbidden to travel to Europe. This book should be read by all Americans who have come to think that their country has been changing to an acceptance of values that are no longer wholesome and to a large degree, effect vast numbers of people in an unjust way.
