Is the USA the most backwards nation?

I'm not even going to get into third world countries in Africa and East Europe and South America, those places are developing and things are getting better over time. So calling them backwards isn't right. But let's look at all the modern countries in the world and compare them to America. How come if you look at Western Europe or Canada or even Japan you will never see the populist insanity that is about to send this country over the cliff tomorrow? Even when people are angry at the economy in these other countries they still THINK.

Look at the elections that just happened in UK. The conservatives won but those conservatives would be considered sane in this country and wouldn't be any part of the tea party. Only in this country is the electorate so fucked in the head that they would put people like Tom Tancredo and Sharron Angle and Sarah Palin in power. In any other country these people wouldn't be able to run for office with their fucked view of the world.

So is this the most backwards country in the modern industrialized world? That's a serious question. BTW I fully expect tomorrow to be a bloodbath, conservatives are excited and democrats/liberals/people with brains are demoralized and defeated.

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Well, let me lay down two important facts:

One, the gap between the rich and the poor in the United States, is the widest in any of the industrialized nations.

Two, in 1950 the United States was number five in health care, sixty years later in 2010, it is now number 49 in health care around the world.

Most of our electrical and land line telephone wires are of 1960s vintage, same with our rail and most transportation lines. I'd say domestically we're practically already a second world nation.

populist
If there was a time that populism was needed, it is now. Granted, not Tea/Coffee/Rally for sanity type of populism we've been seeing lately, something truly grassroots (The Tea Party did start grassroots, but has long been hijacked by the establishment Republican party, so they're mostly irrelevant now).