Which countries are most politically similar to the United States?

[LabourJersey]

I think it has to be Australia.

The two-party, federal system feels closest to the US to me.

English speaking Canada is also pretty similar, but the slightly more communitarian streak plus the Quebec factor makes them less similar IMO compared to Oz.

[LabourJersey]

The polarization of all western countries are become americanized. Class polarization is disappearing. The parties of the left are becoming the parties of the minorities, immigrants and very educated native whites, while the parties of the right are becoming the parties of the not so educated native white population.

That’s why I disagree about US and Brazil being similar. You have the Brazilian Right attempting to mimic (while still not having any intellectual structure to really do it) the American Right even harder than ever as it’s something they’ve always done but that’s it. Way too forced and artificial to be a real thing.

Best way to think US itself is like any regular Developed Country politics but with Latin American high levels of inequality that developed countries normally don’t have, which makes their politics not quite like other developed countries either. In GINI metrics of inequality for instance, US doesn’t compare to Europe or even Canada at all, but to LatAm.

And is exactly why uneducated money-hungry elites and aspiring members in LatAm have US as a western reference instead of say, Europe (the fave of cultural intelectual white elites), as it’s an example of a model where they would have free pass to f*** everyone down below as they wish while that being unquestioned as their “freedom”.

Freedom of white supremacism and to keep the proletariat under eternal slavery, more like. There is difference from LatAm that in US even those poorer segments are duped into believing they have something because “it’s richest country on Earth” and the purchasing power is good enough even if it’s nothing compared to the one from higher classes.

Inequality in US in under a continuous growing trend since FDR new dealism was replaced by Reagan neoliberalism as a national consensus though, so the elites there will eventually change their mindset for the sake of their own survival or the country will reach a boiling point for social upheaval that hopefully makes it collapse like the Communist accelerationists want.

Like, the US has some levels of poverty and social/infrastructure deterioration that are unexplainable looking at just their GDP per capita - which is absurdly high, in the top 10 of the world, behind only super rich small places like Luxembourg, Switzerland or Norway - that’s the group where US should be but if you actually see how the US actually looks like, it often has many places with levels of poverty that are absurd, with people living in the streets and drug neighborhoods with high-violence levels that is more better explained when you get that it has LatAm levels of inequality and elites with a similar mindset that prefer living as Kings in a poorer country than like Nobles in a richer country.

Notice that many US urban centers have violence levels comparable or even higher than urban centers in Latin America, on par with Mexico, which has the most violent cities.

https://theweek.com/politics/1005146/the-us-has-more-in-common-with-south-america-than-europe

The author of that article was a professor of mine in college, oddly enough.

[LabourJersey]

No European country can truly be the "most similar" to the US because none of them have the legacy of being a frontier and a settled nation in the way that the Americas and Australia were.

To previous posters' point, Brazil is a much better answer here than any of the European countries mentioned.