Auto-generated description: A comprehensive infographic displays various statistics highlighting differences in economy, equality, family, livability, institutions, and justice between the United States and OECD averages.

We all know that what’s going on in the US is pretty terrible. But there remains an underlying assumption that the way that Americans organise their society is in some way better, or more valuable than how things are done in Europe and other OECD nations.

Instead of taking American exceptionalism as our example in the UK, we should be looking to re-integrate with our European neighbours.

America’s problems are solved problems.

Universal healthcare is not some utopian fantasy. It is Tuesday in Toronto. Affordable higher education is not an impossible dream. It is Wednesday in Berlin. Sensible gun regulation is not a violation of natural law. It is Thursday in London. Paid parental leave is not radical. It is Friday in Tallinn, and Monday in Tokyo, and every day in between.

Source: On Data and Democracy